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  22   <a href="../libudev/index.html">gudev </a><span style="float:right">systemd 219</span><hr><div class="refentry"><a name="localtime"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>localtime — Local timezone configuration file</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><p><code class="filename">/etc/localtime</code> -&gt; <code class="filename">../usr/share/zoneinfo/…</code></p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139983687234672"></a><h2 id="Description">Description<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#Description">¶</a></h2><p>The <code class="filename">/etc/localtime</code> file configures the
  23     system-wide timezone of the local system that is used by
  24     applications for presentation to the user. It should be an
  25     absolute or relative symbolic link pointing to
  26     <code class="filename">/usr/share/zoneinfo/</code>, followed by a timezone
  27     identifier such as "<code class="literal">Europe/Berlin</code>" or
  28     "<code class="literal">Etc/UTC</code>". The resulting link should lead to the
  29     corresponding binary
  30     <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tzfile</span>(5)</span></a>
  31     timezone data for the configured timezone.</p><p>Because the timezone identifier is extracted from the
  32     symlink target name of <code class="filename">/etc/localtime</code>, this
  33     file may not be a normal file or hardlink.</p><p>The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by
  34     using the <code class="varname">$TZ</code> environment variable. See
  35     <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/environ.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">environ</span>(7)</span></a>.</p><p>You may use
  36     <a href="timedatectl.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">timedatectl</span>(1)</span></a>
  37     to change the settings of this file from the command line during
  38     runtime. Use
  39     <a href="systemd-firstboot.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd-firstboot</span>(1)</span></a>
  40     to initialize the time zone on mounted (but not booted) system
  41     images.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm139983683512608"></a><h2 id="See Also">See Also<a class="headerlink" title="Permalink to this headline" href="#See%20Also">¶</a></h2><p>
  42         <a href="systemd.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd</span>(1)</span></a>,
  43         <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/tzset.3.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">tzset</span>(3)</span></a>,
  44         <a href="localtime.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">localtime</span>(3)</span></a>,
  45         <a href="timedatectl.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">timedatectl</span>(1)</span></a>,
  46         <a href="systemd-timedated.service.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd-timedated.service</span>(8)</span></a>,
  47         <a href="systemd-firstboot.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">systemd-firstboot</span>(1)</span></a>
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