Closes #28130: Documented that time.tzset() updates time module globals.

Thanks Greg Bengeult for the patch.

diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst
index ae17f6f4f0d236a1ec703915d9be764fe3af28e7..6ef02b740316dca89f46ca24778b51b68d676eff 100644 (file)
--- 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.