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Title: How to change CentOS timezone

Created: 19 Mar 2023 Modified: 19 Mar 2023

Description:



[Legacy Link]

Based on the [Link] , the local time is configured by link of the file /etc/localtime

[Additional Link from digital ocean(Cofnigure timezone)]

Instructions

  1. Check local timezone

    ls -l /etc/localtime
#Show output like below message, showing the /etc/localtime is linked with timezone file in zoneinfo
#/etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Hong_Kong

  2. Find out timezone options

    #Find out available timezeon, targeting to hong kong this time
timedatectl list-timezones | grep Hong_Kong
#Asia/Hong_Kong

  3. Setup timezone

    #Set timezone to the grep result 
timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Hong_Kong

  4. Verify

    [root@host ~]# date
Fri Oct 11 02:05:11 HKT 2019
[root@host ~]# ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Oct 11 01:56 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Hong_Kong

Without timezonectl

The timezone could be changed by directly link target timezone

#Backup the local before update
mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime__

#Link the timezone under zoneinfo as /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Hong_Kong /etc/localtime

#Remove the /etc/localtime__
rm /etc/localtime__