Changing timezones - tooltwist/documentation GitHub Wiki

Changing timezone temporarily

sh-4.1# mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime-old

sh-4.1# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/NZ /etc/localtime

At this point, system timezone has changed ephemerally. You can check now.

sh-4.1# date

Thu Mar 21 10:43:10 NZDT 2013

Changing timezone permanently

Edit /etc/sysconfig/clock

sh-4.1# /etc/sysconfig/clock

change ZONE="UTC" to ZONE="NZ"