How to change time zone setting?

Gruenwald · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 101

Another from my endless list of noob questions...

The 'date' command gives me the following output:

nixnut · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

Link /etc/localtime to the right timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo
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Gruenwald · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 101

I don't have /etc/localtime.

I do see /etc/timezone, though...

bjacobt · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Dallas, TX

you will have to make a symbolic link for localtime to exist in your /etc

do this

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT /etc/localtime

after that you will see the link in your /etc directory

use CST6CDT if you are in central time zone

or you can just ls /usr/share/zoneinfo to see what other zones are there.