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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-09-14 20:45:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-09-14 20:45:37 +0200 |
| commit | 050a99bd7be44992292aa752bcf0b13c044896b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 097aeafd881f16dcef94a5b1fb2f26e28dae0308 /man/localtime.xml | |
| parent | 1638bd34e47ee512bec4e3e4aa29226f30b302f0 (diff) | |
man: update localtime(5) a bit
Diffstat (limited to 'man/localtime.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/localtime.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml index 09df161baa..c0e87bf78f 100644 --- a/man/localtime.xml +++ b/man/localtime.xml @@ -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 |