1LOCALTIME(5) localtime LOCALTIME(5)
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6 localtime - Local timezone configuration file
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9 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/...
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12 The /etc/localtime file configures the system-wide timezone of the
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15 /usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by a timezone identifier such as
16 "Europe/Berlin" or "Etc/UTC". The resulting link should lead to the
17 corresponding binary tzfile(5) timezone data for the configured
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21 name of /etc/localtime, this file may not be a normal file or hardlink.
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23 The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by using the $TZ
24 environment variable. See environ(7).
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26 You may use timedatectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the
27 command line during runtime. Use systemd-firstboot(1) to initialize the
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31 systemd(1), tzset(3), localtime(3), timedatectl(1), systemd-
32 timedated.service(8), systemd-firstboot(1)
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