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File Formats                                          timezone(4)



NAME
     timezone - default timezone data base

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/timezone


DESCRIPTION
     The timezone file contains information regarding the default
     timezone  for each host in a domain. Alternatively, a single
     default line for the entire domain  may be  specified.  Each
     entry has the format:

       Timezone-name    official-host-or-domain-name



     Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or TAB char-
     acters.  A `#' indicates the beginning of a comment; charac-
     ters up to the end of the line are not interpreted  by  rou-
     tines  which  search  the  file.  The timezone is a pathname
     relative to the directory /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo.


     This file is not actually referenced by any system software;
     it  is  merely  used  as  a source file to construct the NIS
     timezone.byname map. This map is read  by  sysidtool(1M)  to
     initialize the timezone of the client system at installation
     time. For more information, see the .


     The timezone file does  not  set  the  timezone  environment
     variable  TZ.  See TIMEZONE(4) for information to set the TZ
     environment variable.

EXAMPLES
     Example 1 Typical timezone line


     Here is a typical line from the /etc/timezone file:


       US/Eastern          East.Sun.COM #Sun East Coast



FILES
     /etc/timezone


SEE ALSO




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File Formats                                          timezone(4)



     sysidtool(1M), TIMEZONE(4)



















































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