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LOCALTIME(5) localtime LOCALTIME(5)
localtime - Local timezone configuration file
/etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/...
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.
If /etc/localtime is missing, the default "UTC" timezone is used.
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.
systemd(1), tzset(3), localtime(3), timedatectl(1),
systemd-timedated.service(8), systemd-firstboot(1)
This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service
manager) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2025-02-02. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-02-02.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
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(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
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systemd 258~devel LOCALTIME(5)
Pages that refer to this page: systemd-firstboot(1), timedatectl(1), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd-timedated.service(8), systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
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