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

Latest revision as of 10:21, 9 July 2019

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

To check your current timezone run
```
user@server:~# 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:~# sudo 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
```
Sun May 12 21:00:13 EDT 2019
```

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
+#To check your current timezone run <pre>user@server:~# date</pre> which should return something like <pre>Mon May 13 00:58:26 UTC 2019</pre> showing that the current timezone is set to ''UTC''
- <nowiki>user@server:~# date</nowiki>
+#To change the system timezone run <pre>user@server:~# sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York</pre>
-which should return something like
+#*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]
- <nowiki>Mon May 13 00:58:26 UTC 2019</nowiki>
+#To check your new current timezone run <pre>user@server:~# date</pre> which should return something like <pre>Sun May 12 21:00:13 EDT 2019</pre>
-showing that the current timezone is set to ''UTC''
-To change the system timezone run
- <nowiki>user@server:~# sudo 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
- <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''
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