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diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml
index 09df161ba..88c84a368 100644
--- a/man/localtime.xml
+++ b/man/localtime.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
- /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/â¦
+ /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/â¦
@@ -64,29 +64,39 @@
The /etc/localtime file
configures the system-wide time zone 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
+ 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
+ Europe/Berlin or
+ Etc/UTC. The resulting link should
+ lead 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.
+ As the time zone identifier is extracted from
+ the symlink target name of
+ /etc/localtime this file may not
+ be a normal file or hardlink.
The time zone 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