Clarify man page.

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Dianne Skoll
2025-10-09 09:30:49 -04:00
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@@ -2264,12 +2264,16 @@ adjusted to Thursday, 14 May 2026 at 06:59 UTC because of the
time zone adjustment.
.PP
If you use an invalid time zone name after the \fBTZ\fR keyword,
results are undefined. If you are on a system that stores time zone
data in /usr/share/zoneinfo, then \fBRemind\fR will attempt to validate
the time zone name and will warn you if it appears to be invalid.
If you want to specify a time zone that lacks a file under
/usr/share/zoneinfo anyway, and want to suppress the warning,
prefix the time zone name with "!". For example:
results are undefined. As mentioned previously, time zone names
\fIare\fR case-sensitive; America/Toronto is valid, but
america/toronto is not.
.PP
If you are on a system that stores time zone data in
/usr/share/zoneinfo, then \fBRemind\fR will attempt to validate the
time zone name and will warn you if it appears to be invalid. If you
want to specify a time zone that lacks a file under
/usr/share/zoneinfo anyway, and want to suppress the warning, prefix
the time zone name with "!". For example:
.PP
.nf
REM Thursday AT 14:45 TZ !EST+5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2 MSG Old TZ format