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

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Thanks Greg Bengeult for the patch.
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@ -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.