From 608da9e9b56be83ac394ea7a19cbdacab94f6642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shawn Landden Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:11:27 -0700 Subject: man: remove timezone(5) and add localtime(5) --- man/localtime.xml | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/localtime.xml (limited to 'man/localtime.xml') diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..09df161baa --- /dev/null +++ b/man/localtime.xml @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ + + + + + + + + + /etc/localtime + systemd + + + + Developer + Lennart + Poettering + lennart@poettering.net + + + Developer + Shawn + Landden + shawnlandden@gmail.com + + + + + + localtime + 5 + + + + localtime + Local time zone configuration file + + + + /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/… + + + + Description + + The /etc/localtime 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 /usr/share/zoneinfo/, + fallowed by a time zone identifier such as + Europe/Berlin or Etc/UTC. + The resulting link should point to the corresponding binary + tzfile5 + time zone data for the configured time zone. + + As the time zone identifier is extracted from the name of + the target of /etc/localtime this file may + not be a normal file or hardlink. + + The time zone may be overridden for individual + programs by using the TZ environment variable. See + environ7. + + + + See Also + + tzset3 + localtime3 + systemd1 + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf