X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Flocaltime.xml;h=1cbdf6827464bc25ca3e30ee614e1e3096a007cd;hp=09df161baa42dc45bb91f6a4cbfe274e5e2edb3d;hb=48aae6d6a051acd9c0630fab1e79b82c847e538b;hpb=608da9e9b56be83ac394ea7a19cbdacab94f6642 diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml index 09df161ba..1cbdf6827 100644 --- a/man/localtime.xml +++ b/man/localtime.xml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ - /etc/localtime + localtime systemd @@ -51,42 +51,56 @@ localtime - Local time zone configuration file + Local timezone configuration file - /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/… + /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/… 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 symbolic link - with a destination of /usr/share/zoneinfo/, - fallowed by a time zone identifier such as - Europe/Berlin or Etc/UTC. - The resulting link should point to the corresponding binary - tzfile5 - time zone data for the configured time zone. - - As the time zone identifier is extracted from the name of - the target of /etc/localtime this file may - not be a normal file or hardlink. - - The time zone may be overridden for individual + to the user. It should be an absolute or relative + symbolic link pointing to + /usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by + a timezone identifier such as + Europe/Berlin or + Etc/UTC. The resulting link should + lead to the corresponding binary + tzfile5 + timezone data for the configured timezone. + + Because the timezone identifier is extracted from + the symlink target name of + /etc/localtime, this file may not + be a normal file or hardlink. + + 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 during runtime. Use + systemd-firstboot1 + to initialize the time zone on mounted (but not + booted) system images. See Also - tzset3 - localtime3 - systemd1 + systemd1, + tzset3, + localtime3, + timedatectl1, + systemd-timedated.service8, + systemd-firstboot1