Difference between revisions of "How to change the Timezone on Debian 9 Linux"

Revision as of 20:04, 12 May 2019

Changing the time zone on a debian based system is fairly simple.

To check your current timezone run

user@server:~# sudo date

which should return something like

Mon May 13 00:58:26 UTC 2019

showing that the current timezone is set to UTC

To change the system timezone run

user@server:~# timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

change America/New_York to a location relevant to your physical location using the "TZ database name" in this table

To check your new current timezone run

user@server:~# date

which should return something like

<nowiki>Sun May 12 21:00:13 EDT 2019<nowiki>

showing that the current timezone is now set to EDT

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 Changing the time zone on a debian based system is fairly simple.
-#To check your current timezone: run ''date'' which should return something like ''Mon May 13 00:58:26 UTC 2019'' showing that the current timezone is set to ''UTC''
+To check your current timezone run
-#To change the system timezone: run ''timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York''
+ <nowiki>user@server:~# sudo date</nowiki>
+which should return something like
+ <nowiki>Mon May 13 00:58:26 UTC 2019</nowiki>
+showing that the current timezone is set to ''UTC''
+To change the system timezone run
+ <nowiki>user@server:~# timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York</nowiki>
 *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 ''date'' which should return something like ''Sun May 12 21:00:13 EDT 2019'' showing that the current timezone is now set to ''EDT''
+To check your new current timezone run
+ <nowiki>user@server:~# date</nowiki>
+which should return something like
+ <nowiki>Sun May 12 21:00:13 EDT 2019<nowiki>
+showing that the current timezone is now set to ''EDT''