Changing The Time Zone in Linux

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="text-align: left;">  Simple steps to update change modify timezone in linux </h3> There are several different ways to manage time in Linux. This quick tip will show you how to quickly change the local time to the correct time zone for the server. In this Linux tip I’ll show you how to change the <b>localtime </b>to your (or a) current time zone.<br />Location of the local time file<br /><br /> Linux looks at "<i>/etc/localtime</i>" to determine the current time of your machine. This can either be a symbolic link to the correct time zone or a direct copy of the time zone file.<br /><br />Timezone files are located in "<i>/usr/share/zoninfo/</i>"<br /><br />I change the Linux time zone by copying or making a symbolic link to from /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago to /etc/localtime<br /><br /><b>By two methods we can change Time Zone in linux RHEL 7 or RHEL 8</b><br /><br /><b>Method - 1</b><br /><br />cp   /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime<br /><br /><b>Method -2 </b><br /><br />ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime<br /><br />Example <br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">[root@amitmaheshwari.in]# date<br />Thu Oct  3 00:10:35 EDT 2019<br /><br />[root@amitmaheshwari.in]# ls -l /etc/localtime<br />lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 38 Sep 19 10:32 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York<br /><br />[root@amitmaheshwari.in]# unlink /etc/localtime<br /><br />[root@amitmaheshwari.in]# ln -s  ../usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime<br /><br />[root@amitmaheshwari.in]# date<br />Thu Oct  3 04:17:18 UTC 2019</span><br /></div>

Changing The Time Zone in Linux

 Simple steps to update change modify timezone in linux There are several different ways to manage time in Linux. This quick tip will sho...

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