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LOCALTIME(5)                                  localtime                                 LOCALTIME(5)

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)

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