Tag: tzdata

  • timezone

    To get list of all available timezones, run

    timedatectl list-timezones

    Example

    # timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i kolka
Asia/Kolkata
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    You can use the following command to set the timezone

    timedatectl set-timezone EST

    Example

    timedatectl set-timezone EST
timedatectl set-timezone UTC
timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Kolkata

    To set the timezone in Ubuntu, run

    dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

    /etc/localtime

    For GMT

    ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime

    For EST

    ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime

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