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Posted on February 24, 2020

My auth.log has timestamps for London, how to change that to report in Denver time?



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Hi @brucebouck,

Most probably that’s your server’s timezone. You’ll need to change it using SSH. SSH to your droplet,

ssh root@YourDropletIp

As soon as you are in, you can check your timezone using the timedatectl command. The system timezone is configured by symlinking /etc/localtime to a binary timezone identifier in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. Alternatively, you can also check the current system’s timezone by displaying the contents of the /etc/timezone file.

cat /etc/timezone

There are a few possibilities to change the timezone. The first one is using timedatectl

timedatectl list-timezones

You’ll something like

Europe/Oslo
Europe/Paris
Europe/Podgorica
Europe/Prague
Europe/Riga
Europe/Rome
Europe/Samara

Once you identify which time zone is accurate to your location, run the following command:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone your_time_zone

For example, to change the system’s timezone to Europe/Rome:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Rome ```

Run the timedatectl command to verify the changes

Regards, KFSys

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