How to change the Timezone on Debian 9 Linux

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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