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authorLuca BRUNO <luca.bruno@coreos.com>2020-12-21 09:55:04 +0000
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-02-02 17:31:47 +0100
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man/localtime: document default timezone
This explicitly documents the default `UTC` timezone which is used by systemd and (other softwares) when `/etc/localtime` is not present. Ref: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v247/src/basic/time-util.c#L1460-L1469 (cherry picked from commit 3d909037e3bb86bb14ceef98325b2759b938a4b3) (cherry picked from commit a580023f1da331bd454ea72cad146215b255e0d0)
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@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
symlink target name of <filename>/etc/localtime</filename>, this
file may not be a normal file or hardlink.</para>
+ <para>If <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> is missing, the
+ default <literal>UTC</literal> timezone is used.</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>