Time zone settings in Linux

AIM – To change the time zone setting in Linux System. The new time zone must be Asia/Kolkata.

1. Check the OS distribution by

   cat /etc/os-release

2. To check the date on the system use:

   date

3. To see the current time zone use:

   timedatectl

4. To see all the time zone in the system use:

   timedatectl list-timezones

5. To see if the time zone of Asia/Kolkata is present in the system or not:

   timedatectl list-timezones | grep Asia/Kolkata

6. To change the time zone into the time zone of Asia/Kolkata timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Kolkata

7. Now check the time zone again using the command:

   date

8. To see the changes that we just made:

   timedatectl status

9. To change the time use:

   timedatectl set-time ‘2023-06-08 16:46’

10. To sync the hardware clock with the system clock, use: timedatectl set-local-rtc 0