Changing timezone

Created by Sanjay Kumar, Modified on Fri, 6 Sep at 2:17 AM by Sanjay Kumar

In this article we will be seeing how to modify time zone.  NetYCE provided image comes with Timezone settings as Europe/Amsterdam 

Checking current time-zone

timedatectl can be used to check the current time-zone.
     

Listing available time-zones

To list all available time zones, either list the files in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory or use the timedatectl list-timezones command.
The timezone naming convention usually uses Region/City Format.
            

Changing timezone

Here we are changing the timezone to America/Los_Angeles
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles
      

Verify timezone

Use timedatectl command to verify the new time zone.
     

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