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 the program /usr/etc/install/sysIDtool to initialize the timezone of the client system at installation time.

EXAMPLES

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

US/EasternEast.Sun.COM#Sun East Coast

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