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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-09-14 20:45:37 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-09-14 20:45:37 +0200
commit050a99bd7be44992292aa752bcf0b13c044896b6 (patch)
tree097aeafd881f16dcef94a5b1fb2f26e28dae0308 /man/localtime.xml
parent1638bd34e47ee512bec4e3e4aa29226f30b302f0 (diff)
man: update localtime(5) a bit
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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para>
+ <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>../usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
@@ -64,17 +64,20 @@
<para>The <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> 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 symbolic link
- with a destination of <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>,
- fallowed by a time zone identifier such as
- <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>.
- The resulting link should point to the corresponding binary
+ to the user. It should be an absolute or relative
+ symbolic link pointing to
+ <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>, followed by
+ a time zone identifier such as
+ <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or
+ <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>. The resulting link should
+ lead to the corresponding binary
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzfile</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
time zone data for the configured time zone.</para>
- <para>As the time zone identifier is extracted from the name of
- the target of <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> this file may
- not be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
+ <para>As the time zone identifier is extracted from
+ the symlink target name of
+ <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> this file may not
+ be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
<para>The time zone may be overridden for individual
programs by using the TZ environment variable. See