NAME¶
localtime - Local time zone configuration file
SYNOPSIS¶
/etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/...
DESCRIPTION¶
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 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
tzfile(5) time zone data for
the configured time zone.
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
environ(7).
You may use
timedatectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the
command line.
SEE ALSO¶
systemd(1),
tzset(3),
localtime(3),
timedatectl(1),
systemd-timedated.service(8)
