Manpages - localtime.5
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NAME
localtime - Local timezone configuration file
SYNOPSIS
etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo…
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/localtime file 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 timezone identifier such as “Europe/Berlin” or “Etc/UTC”. The resulting link should lead to the corresponding binary *tzfile*(5) timezone data for the configured timezone.
Because the timezone identifier is extracted from the symlink target name of /etc/localtime, this file may not be a normal file or hardlink.
If /etc/localtime is missing, the default “UTC” timezone is used.
The timezone 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 during runtime. Use *systemd-firstboot*(1) to initialize the time zone on mounted (but not booted) system images.
SEE ALSO
*systemd*(1), *tzset*(3), *localtime*(3), *timedatectl*(1), *systemd-timedated.service*(8), *systemd-firstboot*(1)