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diff --git a/man/man3/pmnewzone.3 b/man/man3/pmnewzone.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f460c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/pmnewzone.3 @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +'\"macro stdmacro +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. +.\" +.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it +.\" under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the +.\" Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your +.\" option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but +.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY +.\" or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License +.\" for more details. +.\" +.\" +.TH PMNEWZONE 3 "PCP" "Performance Co-Pilot" +.SH NAME +\f3pmNewZone\f1 \- establish a reporting timezone +.SH "C SYNOPSIS" +.ft 3 +#include <pcp/pmapi.h> +.sp +int pmNewZone(const char *\fItz\fP); +.sp +cc ... \-lpcp +.ft 1 +.SH DESCRIPTION +The current reporting timezone affects the timezone used by +.BR pmCtime (3) +and +.BR pmLocaltime (3). +.PP +The argument +.I tz +defines a timezone string, in the format described for the +.B TZ +environment variable, see +.BR environ (5). +.PP +.B pmNewZone +sets the current reporting timezone, and returns a value that may be +used in a subsequent call to +.BR pmUseZone (3) +to restore this reporting timezone. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR PMAPI (3), +.BR pmCtime (3), +.BR pmGetConfig (3), +.BR pmLocaltime (3), +.BR pmNewContextZone (3), +.BR pmUseZone (3), +.BR pmWhichZone (3), +.BR pcp.conf (5), +.BR pcp.env (5) +and +.BR environ (5). +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +A return value less than zero indicates a fatal error from a system call, +most likely +.BR malloc (3C). |