Update Server Time and Timezone

Posted on: December 18, 2009

Linux:
User one of the following commands to sync your servers time with the government time servers:
rdate -s time.nist.gov
ntpdate time.nist.gov

If you wish to change the timezone:
#set timezone to Eastern

cd /etc;
mv localtime localtimeOLD;
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime;
hwclock --systohc;

This would change the timezone to Eastern. In the /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/ folder their should be a file for each Timezone so you can link /etc/localtime to whichever zone you prefer.

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