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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<!--
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+
+ Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
+ Copyright 2012 Shawn Landden
+
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+
+<refentry id="localtime">
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>/etc/localtime</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+ <surname>Poettering</surname>
+ <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Shawn</firstname>
+ <surname>Landden</surname>
+ <email>shawnlandden@gmail.com</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>localtime</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>../usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <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 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 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
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+ <para>You may use
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ to change the settings of this file from the command
+ line.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timedated.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>