localtime — Local timezone configuration file
/etc/localtime
-> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/…
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.
The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by using the TZ environment variable. See environ(7).