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Name

TIMEZONE - set default system time zone and locale

Synopsis

/etc/TIMEZONE
/etc/default/init

Description

This file sets the time zone environment variable TZ, and the locale-related environment variables LANG, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME.

/etc/TIMEZONE is a symbolic link to /etc/default/init.

The number of environments that can be set from /etc/default/init is limited to 20.

See Also

init(1M) , ctime(3C) , environ(5)

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