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| author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2017-02-04 15:05:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2017-02-04 15:05:50 -0800 |
| commit | 3b0e4320092ac0504b6670cafaf0301b908c91fc (patch) | |
| tree | d3be1b6b844d61763bb366fa21ceed475e5703fd /Doc/library/time.rst | |
| parent | b2fa705fd3887c326e811c418469c784353027f4 (diff) | |
| parent | f687fbcd73c14dfcbe086eb5cd94b298f1e81e72 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-3b0e4320092ac0504b6670cafaf0301b908c91fc.tar.gz | |
Issue #29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index ae17f6f4f0..6ef02b7403 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -594,8 +594,13 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items: .. function:: tzset() - Resets the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment - variable :envvar:`TZ` specifies how this is done. + Reset the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment + variable :envvar:`TZ` specifies how this is done. It will also set the variables + ``tzname`` (from the :envvar:`TZ` environment variable), ``timezone`` (non-DST + seconds West of UTC), ``altzone`` (DST seconds west of UTC) and ``daylight`` + (to 0 if this timezone does not have any daylight saving time rules, or to + nonzero if there is a time, past, present or future when daylight saving time + applies). Availability: Unix. |