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<refentry id="localtime">
<refentryinfo>
<title>localtime</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<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>localtime</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>localtime</refname>
<refpurpose>Local timezone configuration file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
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
corresponding binary
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>tzfile</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
timezone data for the configured timezone.</para>
<para>Because the timezone identifier is extracted from the
file may not be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
<para>The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by
using the <varname>$TZ</varname> environment variable. See
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>You may use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to change the settings of this file from the command line during
runtime. Use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to initialize the time zone on mounted (but not booted) system
images.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>tzset</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timedated.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>