From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:49:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Correction for TZ on Microsoft systems.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.99~299
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94c3309fd57b66787d4d2d4b39560b2527af60d1;p=emacs.git

Correction for TZ on Microsoft systems.
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diff --git a/man/cmdargs.texi b/man/cmdargs.texi
index e5c9af1f439..8b3def919a5 100644
--- a/man/cmdargs.texi
+++ b/man/cmdargs.texi
@@ -420,9 +420,11 @@ terminal specified by the @env{TERM} variable.  This defaults to
 @item TMPDIR
 Used by the Emerge package as a prefix for temporary files.
 @item TZ
-This specifies the current time zone and possibly also daylight savings
-information.  On MS-DOS, the default is based on country code; see the
-file @file{msdos.c} for details.
+This specifies the current time zone and possibly also daylight
+savings information.  On MS-DOS, if @code{TZ} is not set in the
+environment when Emacs starts, Emacs defines a default value as
+appropriate for the country code returned by DOS.  MS Windows
+does not use @code{TZ} at all.
 @item USER
 The user's login name.  See also @env{LOGNAME}.  On MS-DOS, this
 defaults to @samp{root}.