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diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml index d3da4ed277..b95c2ee6be 100644 --- a/man/localtime.xml +++ b/man/localtime.xml @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ <refnamediv> <refname>localtime</refname> - <refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose> + <refpurpose>Local timezone configuration file</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> @@ -62,24 +62,24 @@ <title>Description</title> <para>The <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file - configures the system-wide time zone of the local + 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 <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/</filename>, followed by - a time zone identifier such as + a timezone 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> + timezone data for the configured timezone.</para> - <para>As the time zone identifier is extracted from + <para>As the timezone 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 + <para>The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by using the TZ environment variable. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> |