How to set Centos to UK timezone

A quick’ cut and paste’ tip for setting the timezone on Centos / Red Hat Linux.

To set it for the UK, as the root user, enter the following:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
All of the different timezones can be found in /usr/share/zoneinfo under various subdirectories, e.g. Europe, Africa etc. To set the appropriate timezone just replace the symbolic link at /etc/localtime to point the the relevant timezone file. In the example above the symbolic link, /etc/localtime is updated to point to the London timezone file.


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Kev