I want to change the timezone of the system clock from the terminal.
This can be done with
tzselect
"which opens a gui in terminal"
or
sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
"which will set to gmt"
But is there a way to set time zone with just the offset ie.-1 or +5 etc?
I need to do this as I'm writing an application to adjust timeoffset or report logs and the only info I have is the user IP. I can use a webapp to find the location of the IP, but then I need to set offset which would be easy IF I could just get the offset of the location, but if I need to find zone and city it would be a real pain.
If anyone knows the answer to how to set system clock with +/-hour would be great.