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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2015-01-02 10:15:29 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2015-01-02 10:15:29 +0000
commit4fd65aec913a1b99e8d748a7a82c150b8f7ee510 (patch)
treed34ac61e9cca0729320c0854c87a3163efd52836 /doc/libstddjb
parent131a18f68dc73f208bb76a944fc6d42c86cfad3b (diff)
downloadskalibs-4fd65aec913a1b99e8d748a7a82c150b8f7ee510.tar.xz
Remove the --enable-right-tz configure option.
Make it a run-time autodetection instead. Update doc. Thanks to Paul Jarc for the suggestion.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/libstddjb')
-rw-r--r--doc/libstddjb/djbtime.html13
-rw-r--r--doc/libstddjb/tai.html2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/libstddjb/djbtime.html b/doc/libstddjb/djbtime.html
index 45876c8..2fa3071 100644
--- a/doc/libstddjb/djbtime.html
+++ b/doc/libstddjb/djbtime.html
@@ -107,15 +107,10 @@ error occurs (for instance: the leap second table cannot be found).
<p>
The following functions convert time between an internal representation
-and a broken-down <tt>struct tm</tt>. The
-<a href="../flags.html#tzisright">--enable-right-tz</a> configure option is used in
-determining how the conversion should proceed. If the <tt>--enable-tai-clock</tt>
-and <tt>--enable-right-tz</tt> configure options have been both enabled
-or both disabled, everything is naturally
-converted as it should be. If only one of them has been enabled,
-unholy magic happens here
-to get the correct broken-down time despite the timezone definition being
-wrong.
+and a broken-down <tt>struct tm</tt>. Conversions are performed to
+get leap seconds handling right, depending on whether skalibs has been
+configured for a TAI-10 or a UTC system clock, and on whether the current
+timezone takes leap seconds into account or not.
</p>
<p>
diff --git a/doc/libstddjb/tai.html b/doc/libstddjb/tai.html
index 3524c05..3617959 100644
--- a/doc/libstddjb/tai.html
+++ b/doc/libstddjb/tai.html
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ on time</a>. It's outdated (there was a leap second in 2009), but complete. </li
<a href="http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/unix-leap-seconds.html">page
about leap seconds, UTC and TAI</a>. </li>
<li> The skalibs <a href="../flags.html#clockistai">--enable-tai-clock</a>
-and <a href="../flags.html#tzisright">--enable-right-tz</a> documentation. </li>
+documentation. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html">Dan J. Bernstein's page
on UTC, TAI and Unix time</a>. </li>
</ul>