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)