Setting time zone

[bwinter]

Truls,

Here is a short howto that I put together last year if you want to 
adjust your timezone from the command line:

=== START ============

These are instruction for changing the timezone of a linux computer 
from the command line. You must have root privileges.

In order to get the particular zone you wish you must locate and 
record the path of the file within the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo/ 
that has the filename which best describes the desired timezone. Some 
common examples which you may use are:

     /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
     /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
     /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Bahrain
     /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC

Next Vi the file /etc/sysconfig/clock. It will look something like this:

     ZONE="America/New_York"
     UTC=true
     ARC=false

Set the ZONE variable to the file path you selected, leaving off the 
path root of “/usr/share/zoneinfo/”. Leave UTC set to true, it should 
only be set to false on dual boot machines with Windows installed. The 
ARC option is relevant to Alpha machines only, should be set to false 
here.  It indicates the ARC console's 42-year time offset is in 
effect. If not set to true, the normal Unix epoch is assumed. Save and 
exit out of Vi.

Now you need to link the file /etc/localtime to the selected zoneinfo 
file:

     [root at ctpview]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York 
/etc/localtime

The last step is to reboot the server:

     [root at ctpview]# shutdown -r now

You can check the new settings with:

     [root at ctpview]# date
     Fri Apr  8 09:50:49 EDT 2005

== END ============

--Bob

Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> Hi,
> can someone please assist me in setting the correct time zone.  
> 
> Regards,
> Truls