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1 | <?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*--> |
2 | <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?> | |
3 | <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" | |
4 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> | |
5 | ||
6 | <!-- | |
7 | This file is part of systemd. | |
8 | ||
9 | Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering | |
608da9e9 | 10 | Copyright 2012 Shawn Landden |
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11 | |
12 | systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
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13 | under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by |
14 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or | |
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15 | (at your option) any later version. |
16 | ||
17 | systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
18 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
19 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
5430f7f2 | 20 | Lesser General Public License for more details. |
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5430f7f2 | 22 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License |
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23 | along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
24 | --> | |
25 | ||
608da9e9 | 26 | <refentry id="localtime"> |
801f44bb | 27 | <refentryinfo> |
7aa955af | 28 | <title>localtime</title> |
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29 | <productname>systemd</productname> |
30 | ||
31 | <authorgroup> | |
32 | <author> | |
33 | <contrib>Developer</contrib> | |
34 | <firstname>Lennart</firstname> | |
35 | <surname>Poettering</surname> | |
36 | <email>lennart@poettering.net</email> | |
37 | </author> | |
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38 | <author> |
39 | <contrib>Developer</contrib> | |
40 | <firstname>Shawn</firstname> | |
41 | <surname>Landden</surname> | |
42 | <email>shawnlandden@gmail.com</email> | |
43 | </author> | |
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44 | </authorgroup> |
45 | </refentryinfo> | |
46 | ||
47 | <refmeta> | |
608da9e9 | 48 | <refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle> |
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49 | <manvolnum>5</manvolnum> |
50 | </refmeta> | |
51 | ||
52 | <refnamediv> | |
608da9e9 | 53 | <refname>localtime</refname> |
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54 | <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose> |
55 | </refnamediv> | |
56 | ||
57 | <refsynopsisdiv> | |
050a99bd | 58 | <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>../usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para> |
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59 | </refsynopsisdiv> |
60 | ||
61 | <refsect1> | |
62 | <title>Description</title> | |
63 | ||
608da9e9 | 64 | <para>The <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file |
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65 | configures the system-wide time zone of the local |
66 | system that is used by applications for presentation | |
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67 | to the user. It should be an absolute or relative |
68 | symbolic link pointing to | |
69 | <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>, followed by | |
70 | a time zone identifier such as | |
71 | <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or | |
72 | <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>. The resulting link should | |
73 | lead to the corresponding binary | |
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74 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzfile</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> |
75 | time zone data for the configured time zone.</para> | |
76 | ||
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77 | <para>As the time zone identifier is extracted from |
78 | the symlink target name of | |
79 | <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> this file may not | |
80 | be a normal file or hardlink.</para> | |
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81 | |
82 | <para>The time zone may be overridden for individual | |
83 | programs by using the TZ environment variable. See | |
84 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> | |
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85 | |
86 | <para>You may use | |
87 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
88 | to change the settings of this file from the command | |
89 | line.</para> | |
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90 | </refsect1> |
91 | ||
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92 | <refsect1> |
93 | <title>See Also</title> | |
94 | <para> | |
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95 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, |
96 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
97 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
98 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
99 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timedated.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
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100 | </para> |
101 | </refsect1> | |
102 | ||
103 | </refentry> |