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/… 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 or relative symbolic link pointing to /usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by a time zone identifier such as Europe/Berlin or Etc/UTC. The resulting link should lead to the corresponding binary tzfile5 time zone data for the configured time zone. As the time zone identifier is extracted from the symlink target name 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. You may use timedatectl1 to change the settings of this file from the command line. systemd1, tzset3, localtime3, timedatectl1, systemd-timedated.service8