<refentry id="localtime">
<refentryinfo>
- <title>/etc/localtime</title>
+ <title>localtime</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<refnamediv>
<refname>localtime</refname>
- <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Local timezone configuration file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para>
+ <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>../usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>The <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file
- configures the system-wide time zone of the local
+ configures the system-wide timezone of the local
system that is used by applications for presentation
- to the user. It should be an absolute symbolic link
- with a destination of <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>,
- fallowed by a time zone identifier such as
- <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>.
- The resulting link should point to the corresponding binary
+ to the user. It should be an absolute or relative
+ symbolic link pointing to
+ <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>, followed by
+ a timezone identifier such as
+ <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or
+ <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>. The resulting link should
+ lead to the corresponding binary
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzfile</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- time zone data for the configured time zone.</para>
+ timezone data for the configured timezone.</para>
- <para>As the time zone identifier is extracted from the name of
- the target of <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> this file may
- not be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
+ <para>Because the timezone identifier is extracted from
+ the symlink target name of
+ <filename>/etc/localtime</filename>, this file may not
+ be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
- <para>The time zone may be overridden for individual
+ <para>The timezone may be overridden for individual
programs by using the TZ environment variable. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+ <para>You may use
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ to change the settings of this file from the command
+ line.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timedated.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>