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<refentry id="localtime">
<refentryinfo>
<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 time zone configuration file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
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
a time zone identifier such as
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 symlink target name of
be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
<para>The time zone may be overridden for individual
programs by using the TZ environment variable. See
<citerefentry><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.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><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>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>