From: Alexander Belopolsky Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:17:23 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Closes #28130: Documented that time.tzset() updates time module globals. X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~1572 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f810d041dcf65dce04ed6851470f316057be5dd9;p=python 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 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.