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-rw-r--r--man/localtime.xml (renamed from man/timezone.xml)49
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diff --git a/man/timezone.xml b/man/localtime.xml
index dedb7d90ff..09df161baa 100644
--- a/man/timezone.xml
+++ b/man/localtime.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
This file is part of systemd.
Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
+ Copyright 2012 Shawn Landden
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
@@ -22,9 +23,9 @@
along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-->
-<refentry id="timezone">
+<refentry id="localtime">
<refentryinfo>
- <title>/etc/timezone</title>
+ <title>/etc/localtime</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
@@ -34,38 +35,46 @@
<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>timezone</refentrytitle>
+ <refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
- <refname>timezone</refname>
+ <refname>localtime</refname>
<refpurpose>Local time zone configuration file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>/etc/timezone</filename></para>
+ <para><filename>/etc/localtime</filename> -> <filename>/usr/share/zoneinfo/…</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para>The <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> file
+ <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 contain a single
- newline-terminated line consisting of a time zone
- identifier such as
- <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal>. The file
- <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> corresponds with
- <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> and contains the
- binary time zone data for the time zone. These files
- should always be changed simultaneously and kept in
- sync.</para>
+ 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
+ <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>The time zone may be overridden for individual
programs by using the TZ environment variable. See
@@ -73,16 +82,10 @@
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
- <title>History</title>
-
- <para>The simple configuration file format of
- <filename>/etc/timezone</filename> originates from
- Debian GNU/Linux.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>