<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 or relative
symbolic link pointing to
<filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>, followed by
- a time zone identifier such as
+ 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
+ <para>Because the timezone identifier is extracted from
the symlink target name of
- <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> this file may not
+ <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>