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4337 eliminate /etc/TIMEZONE

@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 '\" te
+.\" Copyright 2014 Garrett D'Amore
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 .\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
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-.TH TIMEZONE 4 "Jun 26, 2003"
+.TH init 4 "Mar 15, 2014"
 .SH NAME
-TIMEZONE \- set default system time zone and locale
+init \- set default system time zone and locale
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .LP
 .nf
-\fB/etc/TIMEZONE\fR
 \fB/etc/default/init\fR
 .fi
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .sp

@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@
 locale-related environment variables \fBLANG\fR, \fBLC_COLLATE\fR,
 \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLC_MESSAGES\fR, \fBLC_MONETARY\fR, \fBLC_NUMERIC\fR, and
 \fBLC_TIME\fR.
 .sp
 .LP
-\fB/etc/TIMEZONE\fR is a symbolic link to \fB/etc/default/init\fR.
+\fB/etc/TIMEZONE\fR is a symbolic link to \fB/etc/default/init\fR.  This
+link exists for compatibility with legacy software, is obsolete, and may
+be removed in a future release. 
 .sp
 .LP
 The number of environment variables that can be set from
 \fB/etc/default/init\fR is limited to 20.
 .sp