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25 <refentry id="timezone">
27 <title>/etc/timezone</title>
28 <productname>systemd</productname>
32 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
33 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
34 <surname>Poettering</surname>
35 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
41 <refentrytitle>timezone</refentrytitle>
42 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
46 <refname>timezone</refname>
47 <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose>
51 <para><filename>/etc/timezone</filename></para>
55 <title>Description</title>
57 <para>The <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> file
58 configures the system-wide time zone of the local
59 system that is used by applications for presentation
60 to the user. It should contain a single
61 newline-terminated line consisting of a time zone
63 <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal>. The file
64 <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> corresponds with
65 <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> and contains the
66 binary time zone data for the time zone. These files
67 should always be changed simultaneously and kept in
70 <para>The time zone may be overridden for individual
71 programs by using the TZ environment variable. See
72 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
76 <title>History</title>
78 <para>The simple configuration file format of
79 <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> originates from
80 Debian GNU/Linux.</para>
84 <title>See Also</title>
86 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>