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Linux: How to change time zone information?

Posted by Mohammed in Linux on February 8, 2010 | no responses

The date command can be used to reset system time, but it can’t be used used to change timezone. However, timezone reconfiguration is pretty easier.

# date
Sun Feb  7 21:45:53 PST 2010
# rm -f /etc/localtime
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime
# date
Mon Feb  8 00:46:34 EST 2010

The ‘timeconfig’ command can also be used to reset time/timezone information on RedHat based machines.

~mohammed

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