Dear friend in this tutorial we will see how to change TimeZone on CentOS 7 server. Suppose CentOS 7 server TimeZone is not according to our requirements and we need to be changed TimeZone on our server. It will very helpful for you. I will see you how to change TimeZone on CentOS 7 server step by step.
For more details about TimeZone you can click on below link:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
We will cover these below topics in this tutorial: –
How to check current TimeZone on our CentOS 7
How to display all available TimeZone on our CentOS 7
How to change current TimeZone on our CentOS 7
How to check current TimeZone on our CentOS 7
We can check our current TimeZone on our CentOS 7 server using this command “timedatectl status”
[root@urclouds ~]# timedatectl status
Local time: Sun 2019-06-09 18:17:57 CEST
Universal time: Sun 2019-06-09 16:17:57 UTC
RTC time: Sun 2019-06-09 16:17:57
Time zone: Europe/Brussels (CEST, +0200)
NTP enabled: no
NTP synchronized: no
RTC in local TZ: no
DST active: yes
Last DST change: DST began at
Sun 2019-03-31 01:59:59 CET
Sun 2019-03-31 03:00:00 CEST
Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at
Sun 2019-10-27 02:59:59 CEST
Sun 2019-10-27 02:00:00 CET
[root@urclouds ~]#
You can see in above out put our current is TimeZone is Europe/Brussels(CEST,+0200)
How to display all available TimeZone on our CentOS 7
You can list all available time zones with the help of “timedatectl list-timezones” like below: –
[root@urclouds ~]# timedatectl list-timezones Africa/Abidjan Africa/Accra Africa/Addis_Ababa Africa/Algiers Africa/Asmara Africa/Bamako Africa/Bangui Africa/Banjul Africa/Bissau Africa/Blantyre Africa/Brazzaville Africa/Bujumbura Africa/Cairo Africa/Casablanca Africa/Ceuta Africa/Conakry Africa/Dakar Africa/Dar_es_Salaam Africa/Djibouti Africa/Douala Africa/El_Aaiun Africa/Freetown Africa/Gaborone Africa/Harare Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Juba Africa/Kampala Africa/Khartoum Africa/Kigali Africa/Kinshasa Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville Africa/Lome Africa/Luanda Africa/Lubumbashi Africa/Lusaka Africa/Malabo Africa/Maputo Africa/Maseru Africa/Mbabane Africa/Mogadishu Africa/Monrovia lines 1-42
we can entry on space bar button and we will get all time zones.
Grep command can be used to find out specific time zones. Like below: –
[root@urclouds ~]# timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i "Asia/Kol" Asia/Kolkata [root@urclouds ~]#
How to change current TimeZone on our CentOS 7
Now I am going to change TimeZone on our CentOS 7 server from Europe/Brussels to Asia/Kolkata
[root@urclouds ~]# timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Kolkata [root@urclouds ~]#
Now we need to be verified our current TimeZone has been changed or not?
[root@urclouds ~]# timedatectl status
Local time: Sun 2019-06-09 22:09:36 IST
Universal time: Sun 2019-06-09 16:39:36 UTC
RTC time: Sun 2019-06-09 16:39:37
Time zone: Asia/Kolkata (IST, +0530)
NTP enabled: no
NTP synchronized: no
RTC in local TZ: no
DST active: n/a
[root@urclouds ~]#
You can see in above out put we have successfully changed our CentOS 7 current TimeZone to new TimeZone.
That’s all, in this tutorial we have seen how to change TimeZone on CentOS 7. Thanks for reading and your feedback will be appreciated.
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