NAME

timezone − set default system time zone

SYNOPSIS

/etc/TIMEZONE, /etc/TZ

DESCRIPTION

The file /etc/TZ specifies the system’s time zone. 

The file /etc/TIMEZONE is obsolete.  It used to be executed by /etc/profile and "dotted" into other files that needed to know the time.  Now, login(1) initializes the timezone variable TZ as follows:  from the environment, environ(5), if it exists, or from the file /etc/TZ if that exists, or from a default built into login(1). 

The system must be rebooted in order for a change to /etc/TZ to take effect. 

EXAMPLES

/etc/TZ for the east coast:

EST5EDT
# Timezone value used by settz, login and /etc/TIMEZONE
# The value must start on the beginning of the first line
# and a newline must follow the value.
#ident  "@(#)TZ 1.1"    11/21/89

FILES

/etc/zoneinfo            time zone information directory

SEE ALSO

ctime(3C), rc2(1M), settz(8)

September 02, 1992