{"id":662,"date":"2007-08-21T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/21\/how-to-change-timezone-in-linux-from-ssh\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:47:24","slug":"how-to-change-timezone-in-linux-from-ssh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/21\/how-to-change-timezone-in-linux-from-ssh\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change TimeZone in linux from ssh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running a dedicated server or vps without control panel or a control panel which doesnt provide an interface to change time zones (like HSPComplete VPS), you can easily change your timezone from ssh command prompt.<\/p>\n<p>First browse to <strong>\/usr\/share\/zoneinfo<\/strong> to find your city.<\/p>\n<p>You can use SFTP to easily browse your server files.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/linux-time-zone-dhaka.jpg' alt='Linux TimeZone - Dhaka' \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we find time zone for Dhaka to be located at <strong>\/usr\/share\/zoneinfo\/Asia\/Dhaka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now you need to SSH into your server and link <strong>\/etc\/localtime<\/strong> to your desired time zone file.<\/p>\n<p>To set the server timezone to Dhaka we use the command:<br \/>\n<code>ln -sf \/usr\/share\/zoneinfo\/Asia\/Dhaka \/etc\/localtime<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ssh-timezone-dhaka.jpg' alt='SSH TimeZone - Dhaka' \/><\/p>\n<p>We can check if it got properly set with the <strong>date<\/strong> command<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/linux-date-command.jpg' alt='Linux Date Command' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running a dedicated server or vps without control panel or a control panel which doesnt provide an interface to change time zones (like HSPComplete VPS), you can easily change your timezone from ssh command prompt. First browse to \/usr\/share\/zoneinfo to find your city. You can use SFTP to easily browse your server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[40,126,304,29,39,127],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","category-tutorials","tag-how-to","tag-linux","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}