man: explain time units in tmpfiles

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195294
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2015-02-23 18:59:17 -05:00
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delete when cleaning. If a file or directory is older than the
current time minus the age field, it is deleted. The field
format is a series of integers each followed by one of the
following postfixes for the respective time units:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>s</varname></term>
<term><varname>min</varname></term>
<term><varname>h</varname></term>
<term><varname>d</varname></term>
<term><varname>w</varname></term>
<term><varname>ms</varname></term>
<term><varname>m</varname></term>
<term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
following postfixes for the respective time units:
<constant>s</constant>,
<constant>m</constant> or <constant>min</constant>,
<constant>h</constant>,
<constant>d</constant>,
<constant>w</constant>,
<constant>ms</constant>,
<constant>us</constant>,
respectively meaning seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
milliseconds, and microseconds. Full names of the time units can
be used too.
</para>
<para>If multiple integers and units are specified, the time
values are summed up. If an integer is given without a unit,
<varname>s</varname> is assumed.
values are summed. If an integer is given without a unit,
<constant>s</constant> is assumed.
</para>
<para>When the age is set to zero, the files are cleaned