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Monday, February 28, 2011

Setting Time Zone in Linux (Ubuntu)

Setting Time Zone in Linux (Ubuntu)
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Setting the time zone in Amazon Linux

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=210296&tstart=0#210296

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime

Where Asia/Calcutta can be replaced...  




I have not tried the below:

That succeeded, and should be more robust against daylight savings changes than the other options:

also had to unset my TZ="PST" env var before the change was apparent.





Incase if your server is not in sync with actual time, please run the following command:

sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org