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How to change Time Zone in CentOS 6

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change Time Zone in CentOS

How to change Time Zone in CentOS 6

This post will help you to know how to change time zone in CentOS. You can find that a series of time zones are located at /usr/share/zoneinfo. Also, the active time zone of the server is in the /etc/localtime file.

In order to set the Asia/Kolkata timezone, you need to follow the steps given below

First you need to backup the existing localtime file.

 
mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.bak

Then you need to create a symlink.

 
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime

Make sure to replace Asia/Kolkata with the directory and filename of the timezone you wish to use.

Please run the following command to check everything is working fine one this is done.

 
date

That’s it!

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