X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Flocaltime.xml;h=1cbdf6827464bc25ca3e30ee614e1e3096a007cd;hp=d3da4ed277f8a53e341b95605050b952a4a7b98b;hb=d0928791499734e202460d5c027b5d3e0d28e7ab;hpb=7aa955af052f8e50bfdbf01f368317012775bc9f diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml index d3da4ed27..1cbdf6827 100644 --- 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/… + /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 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