From 050a99bd7be44992292aa752bcf0b13c044896b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:45:37 +0200 Subject: man: update localtime(5) a bit --- man/localtime.xml | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/localtime.xml') diff --git a/man/localtime.xml b/man/localtime.xml index 09df161baa..c0e87bf78f 100644 --- a/man/localtime.xml +++ b/man/localtime.xml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ - /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/… + /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/… @@ -64,17 +64,20 @@ The /etc/localtime file 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 symbolic link - with a destination of /usr/share/zoneinfo/, - fallowed by a time zone identifier such as - Europe/Berlin or Etc/UTC. - The resulting link should point to the corresponding binary + to the user. It should be an absolute or relative + symbolic link pointing to + /usr/share/zoneinfo/, followed by + a time zone identifier such as + Europe/Berlin or + Etc/UTC. The resulting link should + lead to the corresponding binary tzfile5 time zone data for the configured time zone. - As the time zone identifier is extracted from the name of - the target of /etc/localtime this file may - not be a normal file or hardlink. + As the time zone identifier is extracted from + the symlink target name of + /etc/localtime this file may not + be a normal file or hardlink. The time zone may be overridden for individual programs by using the TZ environment variable. See -- cgit v1.2.1