How to change the time zone on linux box

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Wordpress API

Please use following commands for changing the timezone.
[root@ip-kapilk-pc kapil]# date
Fri Jan 22 06:35:11 MST 2010

[root@ip-kapilk-pc kapil]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/
Africa/ Cuba GMT0 Japan Poland Universal
America/ EET GMT-0 Kwajalein Portugal US/
Antarctica/ Egypt GMT+0 Libya posix/ UTC
Arctic/ Eire Greenwich MET posixrules WET
Asia/ EST Hongkong Mexico/ PRC W-SU
Atlantic/ EST5EDT HST Mideast/ PST8PDT zone.tab
Australia/ Etc/ Iceland MST right/ Zulu
Brazil/ Europe/ Indian/ MST7MDT ROC
Canada/ Factory Iran Navajo ROK
CET GB iso3166.tab NZ Singapore
Chile/ GB-Eire Israel NZ-CHAT Turkey
CST6CDT GMT Jamaica Pacific/ UCT

[root@ip-kapilk-pc kapil]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime
[root@ip-kapilk-pc kapil]# date
Fri Jan 22 08:40:32 EST 2010
[root@ip-kapilk-pc kapil]#

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