Changing Timezones in Ubuntu

October 18, 2007 @ 01:45 PM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 03.18.08)

What time is it?


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Update: [March 18, 2008] This article applies specifically for Slicehost VPS /slice hence the soft reboot step which is only available via the slicehost vps control panel.

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Example below changes timezone to Chicago

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cd /usr/share/zoneinfo
mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime-old
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime

/usr/share/zoneinfo/ - has all the timezones that you need.

Then a Soft Reboot...

[ Last updated: March 18, 2008 @ 11:15 AM ]

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“Changing Timezones in Ubuntu”

  1. Michael:

    Hey, I have a virtual ubuntu box through http://quantact.com/

    While I can reboot the server via ssh, or using their control panel thing, I was wondering how to do a soft reboot that would apply the timezone changes (and thus make my apache log files correct) without actually rebooting, especially as it's a web, mail, and FTP server.

    Thanks.



    Posted: November 22nd, 2007 at 04:13 AM

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