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diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml
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--- a/man/localtime.xml
+++ b/man/localtime.xml
@@ -51,52 +51,56 @@
localtime
- Local time zone configuration file
+ Local timezone configuration file
- /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/â¦
+ /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/â¦
Description
The /etc/localtime 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
/usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by
- a time zone identifier such as
+ a timezone identifier such as
Europe/Berlin or
Etc/UTC. The resulting link should
lead to the corresponding binary
- tzfile5
- time zone data for the configured time zone.
+ tzfile5
+ timezone data for the configured timezone.
- As the time zone identifier is extracted from
+ Because the timezone identifier is extracted from
the symlink target name of
- /etc/localtime this file may not
+ /etc/localtime, this file may not
be a normal file or hardlink.
- The time zone may be overridden for individual
+ The timezone may be overridden for individual
programs by using the TZ environment variable. See
- environ7.
+ environ7.
You may use
timedatectl1
to change the settings of this file from the command
- line.
+ line during runtime. Use
+ systemd-firstboot1
+ to initialize the time zone on mounted (but not
+ booted) system images.
See Also
systemd1,
- tzset3,
+ tzset3,
localtime3,
timedatectl1,
- systemd-timedated.service8
+ systemd-timedated.service8,
+ systemd-firstboot1