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| author | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2017-01-27 13:05:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> | 2017-01-27 13:05:09 +0000 |
| commit | d45d8652710e51576367db00b226b8465e6c5ce6 (patch) | |
| tree | eeb12605abc98507852e82848382c2e739991708 /Doc/library/time.rst | |
| parent | 6ccbbb38caa79f9eb9b93b5767f3787fc80cbac1 (diff) | |
| parent | bbbab3c96168cea9f872f90da0a385b50f62ca70 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-d45d8652710e51576367db00b226b8465e6c5ce6.tar.gz | |
Closes #28784: Merged update from 3.6.
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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. |