X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Flocaltime.xml;h=b7fd1ba15d980a1372b85ec71fc43d881576c6e8;hp=c0e87bf78f653b0180d283c973d286617cb11fd1;hb=7abfbe7903d8e792850ec39286a3d86e616a6477;hpb=050a99bd7be44992292aa752bcf0b13c044896b6 diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml index c0e87bf78..b7fd1ba15 100644 --- a/man/localtime.xml +++ b/man/localtime.xml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ - /etc/localtime + localtime systemd @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ localtime - Local time zone configuration file + Local timezone configuration file @@ -62,34 +62,41 @@ 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. + 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. + + You may use + timedatectl1 + to change the settings of this file from the command + line. See Also - tzset3 - localtime3 - systemd1 + systemd1, + tzset3, + localtime3, + timedatectl1, + systemd-timedated.service8