diff -r 2b7b203e3909 Doc/library/time.rst
--- a/Doc/library/time.rst	Wed Jan 11 20:18:03 2017 +0200
+++ b/Doc/library/time.rst	Thu Jan 12 09:42:07 2017 -0800
@@ -594,8 +594,13 @@
 
 .. 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.