Comments on: Howto: Linux server change or setup the timezone

By: Nate Cummings

Nate Cummings — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:22:10 +0000

Use an NTP cronjob to update your time

By: littleguy

littleguy — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:25:33 +0000

Setting timezone via /etc/localtime worked fine in CentOS 6!

By: pravinthali

pravinthali — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:54:58 +0000

really a valuable information……………Thanks for that piece.

By: krusha

krusha — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:40:47 +0000

Hi,

I running shell script in Ec2-amazon web service.I dont want to change the time zone of server rather wanted to know with some command if I can get IST time.By default it shows UTC .I think if we pass some parameter with date command ,it should work. Please help me out .

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:42:48 +0000

Thanks! The ln method worked fine on FC14.
I noticed that some things (httpd) do not pick up the change until restarted.

By: Rangalal Gamage

Rangalal Gamage — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:21:14 +0000

It works for ubuntu/kubuntu also. Thanks a lot.

By: asdf

asdf — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:17:24 +0000

suse: use yast

By: frank

frank — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:43:54 +0000

can you help change time zone for linux suse

By: Mohamed ibrahim

Mohamed ibrahim — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:24:45 +0000

Dear Vijay,
My Linux mechines are running under vmware server. My server time is changed every day. I reset my time every date with date -s command. But my windows mechines are running good. Time variation between linux and windows varied. Every day morning my clock shows 09:00 o clock but my server shows 09:50 or 10:00 or 10:03…. How do i set my linux box time constantly

By: Basil

Basil — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:27:09 +0000

So after I use the /etc/localtime method sure if I type date the response from date is in the right timezone, but what about every running task, they are still using the old timezone. examples are crontab, mysqld, etc… obviously booting the system does ensure everything changes over, and cycling crontab for example fixes it, but is their a easy way to sync all without an outage.

By: Pragnesh

Pragnesh — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:28:04 +0000

I want it to work for ‘UBUNTU’.
Please help.

By: cmyster

cmyster — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:58:02 +0000

In Arch, simply edit /etc/rc.conf and modify TIMEZONE.
it sould be the relative path to the zoneinfo file in /usr/share/zoneinfo
for example to set your local time to New York:
> cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/
> find . -name New_York
./America/New_York

now edit rc.conf:
TIMEZONE=”America/New_York”

By: jdros

jdros — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:22:40 +0000

For Debian/Ubuntu, you have to edit

/etc/timezone

use
```
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
```
, or
browse to
```
/usr/share/zoneinfo/
```
and locate your city in (relative) directory/file tree, i.e. Europe/Athens; put this exact string in
```
/etc/timezone
```
.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:57:25 +0000

Don’t use “system-config-date” if you have build the symbolic link like

[root zoneinfo]# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 20 13:43 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT

It could corrupt your original file “/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT”

I was puzzling weeks on it to find out that my original files were corrupted.
I got that hint from another thread out there.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:31:09 +0000

I mistakenly typed in date -u now it always shows date in UTC time, everytime I type date. I want the date to revert back to showing PST time when I type date.
How do I revert back for date to just PST time agan.

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:05:03 +0000

using fedora… “rm /etc/localtime” first and then make the link , worked for me.

Now amsn works fine and my local time now its right.

thx a lot.

By: yogesh

yogesh — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:39:20 +0000

It worked thanks a lot

By: Hariharan Madhavan

Hariharan Madhavan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:43:27 +0000

Thanks a bunch. I found this extremely useful to set my Server time to Indian TimeZone.

By: Mohamed Yusuf

Mohamed Yusuf — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:34:26 +0000

It works. Thanks a lot.

By: Adam Monsen

Adam Monsen — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:08:37 +0000

FYI, on Ubuntu 10.04, I also thought it was necessary to manually maintain /etc/localtime, /etc/timezone and friends to change to Asia/Calcutta. But I noticed when running “dpkg-reconfigure tzdata” that Asia/Kolkata does show up, and this is the same city/timezone. redhat-config-date might do something similar, I don’t know.

/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta and /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata point to the same inode on my system.