NAME

       localtime - Local timezone configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/...

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/localtime file configures the 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
       /usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by a timezone identifier such as "Europe/Berlin" or "Etc/UTC". The
       resulting link should lead to the corresponding binary tzfile(5) timezone data for the configured
       timezone.

       Because the timezone identifier is extracted from the symlink target name of /etc/localtime, this file
       may not be a normal file or hardlink.

       If /etc/localtime is missing, the default "UTC" timezone is used.

       The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by using the $TZ environment variable. See
       environ(7).

       You may use timedatectl(1) to change the settings of this file from the command line during runtime. Use
       systemd-firstboot(1) to initialize the time zone on mounted (but not booted) system images.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), tzset(3), localtime(3), timedatectl(1), systemd-timedated.service(8), systemd-firstboot(1)