/etc/localtime
configures the system-wide timezone of the local system.
It may be link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/
followed by a timezone identifier such as "Europe/Berlin" or "Etc/UTC"
pointing to binary tzfile(5) timezone data for the configured timezone.
Timezone identifier is extracted from the target name of /etc/localtime,
The timezone may be overridden for individual programs by using the $TZ
. See environ(7).
timedatectl(1) changes this file during runtime.
systemd-firstboot(1) to initialize the time zone on mounted (but not booted) system images.
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