localtime(5)

NAME

   localtime - Local timezone configuration file

SYNOPSIS

   /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/...

DESCRIPTION

   The /etc/localtime file configures the system-wide timezone of the
   local system that is used by applications for presentation to the user.
   It should be an absolute or relative symbolic link pointing to
   /usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by a timezone identifier such as
   "Europe/Berlin" or "Etc/UTC". The resulting link should lead to the
   corresponding binary tzfile(5) timezone data for the configured
   timezone.

   Because the timezone identifier is extracted from the symlink target
   name of /etc/localtime, this file may not be a normal file or hardlink.

   The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by using the $TZ
   environment variable. See environ(7).

   You may use timedatectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the
   command line during runtime. Use systemd-firstboot(1) to initialize the
   time zone on mounted (but not booted) system images.

SEE ALSO

   systemd(1), tzset(3), localtime(3), timedatectl(1), systemd-
   timedated.service(8), systemd-firstboot(1)

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