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BenMorel
Asked: 2013-03-21 01:40:27 +0800 CST

Where is the UTC timezone in CentOS?

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I was running the CentOS installer, and was surprised that I couldn't find UTC when prompted for the timezone.

The only available choices are:

  • Etc/GMT
  • Etc/GMT±[1-12]
  • Etc/UTC

However, I recently learned that Etc/UTC is not the same as UTC.

So why is only Etc/UTC proposed and not UTC?

centos

3 Answers

  1. You should see a list of possible timezones in 

    ls /usr/share/zoneinfo

    at the top level should be UTC. To change the timezone of the server, you need to change (or set) the symbolic link /etc/localtime (after you found the location of UTC in zoneinfo directory above)

    rm -f /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime

    more info

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  2. Best Answer

    Per IANA's time zone database, Etc/UTC is the specifier for the timezone whose display name is UTC -- that is, it's UTC. So the premise of your question is incorrect.

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  3. When installing CentOS you can select the Etc category then under city just scroll to the top and you'll see Coordinated Universal Time. This wasn't so obvious as a choice, seems like UTC should be a direct option under Region.

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