Exam 102-500 topic 1 question 21 discussion

Actual exam question from LPI's 102-500

Question #: 21
Topic #: 1

What is true about the file /etc/localtime?

A. It is a plain text file containing a string such as Europe/Berlin
B. It is created and maintained by the NTP service based on the location of the system's IP address.
C. It is a symlink to /sys/device/clock/ltime and always contains the current local time.
D. After changing this file, newtzconfig has to be run to make the changes effective.
E. It is either a symlink to or a copy of a timezone information file such as /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin.

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Suggested Answer: E 🗳️

by YaFoo at Oct. 18, 2021, 2:31 p.m.

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Highly Voted 1 year, 11 months ago

Selected Answer: E

[root@rhel8-02 ~]# stat /etc/localtime File: /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York it links to /usr/share/zoneinfo///

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Highly Voted 2 years ago

E. Correct -It is a symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/*/* -It is not plain text

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Most Recent 9 months, 3 weeks ago

It is not a plain text, it is a binary file. If you run cat /etc/localtime you will just see a bunch of cipher/random text

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