Linux Servers cPanel webhosting blog » change time zone http://www.theperfectarts.com Basics cPanel tutorials / issue,mysql,php errors etc Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:58:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to change time zone on Linux Server? http://www.theperfectarts.com/2009/10/how-to-change-time-zone-on-linux-server/ http://www.theperfectarts.com/2009/10/how-to-change-time-zone-on-linux-server/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:54:03 +0000 Gunjan http://www.theperfectarts.com/?p=353 The all the time zone files are stored in /usr/share/zoneinfo directory  and its need to simlink to the /etc/localtime file to show the timezone as per your requirment.

Refer following URL to set the timezone for example we are setting GMT timezone.

admin@root#ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
But make sure that you are logged into Server as root to execute above command.Now check timezone has been changed or not?

admin@root # date
Tue Oct 27 03:49:53 GMT 2009

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