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Changing the time zone on a debian based system is fairly simple.
#To check your current timezone run <nowikipre>user@server:~# date</nowikipre>which should return something like <nowikipre>Mon May 13 00:58:26 UTC 2019</nowikipre>showing that the current timezone is set to ''UTC'' #To change the system timezone run <nowikipre>user@server:~# sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York</nowikipre>#*change ''America/New_York'' to a location relevant to your physical location using the "TZ database name" in this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones table] #To check your new current timezone run <nowikipre>user@server:~# date</nowikipre>which should return something like <nowikipre>Sun May 12 21:00:13 EDT 2019</nowikipre>
showing that the current timezone is now set to ''EDT''
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