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-rw-r--r--man/systemd-timedated.service.xml2
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 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
diff --git a/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml b/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml
index 56450482d7..47e762284a 100644
--- a/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timezone</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>hwclock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>