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CHANGE TIMEZONE LINUX CENTOS 7 HOW TO
Now, if you want to verify it you can do it by listing the /etc/localtime file or run the date command: dateįinally, you learned how to change timezone in CentOS 7. In this case: datefmt '+a b e H:M:S :z Y'. Then edit datefmt variable from the /usr/share/i18n/locales/YOURLOCALEHERE file accordingly to yours.

We are going to change the timezone by creating symlink /etc/localtime to the timezone in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory.įirst, you need to delete current /etc/localtime symlink or file by typing: sudo rm -rf /etc/localtimeĪfter that, add the timezone which you want to set and creating a symlink: sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime Check your shells current locale: locale. This method is useful when your server is running older version of CentOS or not have You can change timezone by creating a symlink also. Sun 01:00:00 CST Change Timezone By Symlink # Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at It should show that timezone is changed to America/Chicago. Once you get timezone which you want then run the following command as sudo user. It will show output like below: Africa/Abidjan You can get the list of all available timezones using below command: timedatectl list-timezones

For example, the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York represents time zone for New York. /usr/share/zoneinfo/ – This directory contains the files timezone name wise.DST active: n/a CentOS Timezone Config Files #
