1TIMEZONE(4)                      File Formats                      TIMEZONE(4)
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NAME

6       TIMEZONE - set default system time zone and locale
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SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/TIMEZONE
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DESCRIPTION

14       This  file  sets the time zone environment variable TZ, and the locale-
15       related environment variables LANG, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE,  LC_MESSAGES,
16       LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME.
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22       The   number   of   environment   variables   that   can  be  set  from
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26       The format of the file is:
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33       where VAR is a timezone environment variable and  value  is  the  value
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SEE ALSO

39       init(1M), rtc(1M), ctime(3C), environ(5)
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NOTES

42       When  changing  the  TZ  setting on x86 systems, you must make a corre‐
43       sponding change to the /etc/rtc_config file  to  account  for  the  new
44       timezone  setting.  This can be accomplished by executing the following
45       commands, followed by a reboot, to make the changes take effect:
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54       where zone-name is the same name as the TZ variable setting.
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