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Steve Robbins
Asked: 2011-08-26 14:16:01 +0800 CST

Changing Timezone, Centos Apache server

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I'm trying to change my server's timezone.

I was following this tutorial but I can't get it to change to Pacific Standard Time.

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST localtime

Will work, but 

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST localtime

will not. What's going on here?

centos ssh timezone

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have to do two things: edit /etc/sysconfig/clock, you will need to change the ZONE variable. And once you've changed it, next time you reboot your CentOS it will apply the change.

    To apply it inmediately you need to change the /etc/localtime, i.e. 

    ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime

    That will make the change immediate, but remember to also edit /etc/sysconfig/clock so your change won't be undone in next reboot.

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  2. # yum -y install system-config-date
# system-config-date
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  3. Try ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific localtime

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  4. From CentOS7 onwards:

    timedatectl set-timezone US/Pacific

    The question doesn't specify CentOS version, and there is no /etc/sysconfig/clock anymore on a default CentOS 7 (RHEL 7).

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