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How to change the timezone on ubuntu 14

Posted February 14, 2015 94.4k views

Hi all,

My timezone is set to New York and I need to change it over to UK.

How would I change this over?

Thank you :)

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kcristella February 14, 2015

Log into the server and run this command: 

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

After that, the prompts will be self-explanatory.

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adamcshowedme February 14, 2015

Superstar, thanks

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mohsensadr July 1, 2018

the quickest way i think is …

# sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London
# rdate rdate.cpanel.net

boom !

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