- Category: Software Featured - Published on Thursday, 20
September 2012 13:17 - Written by Ajay Most modern Linux
distributions have user-friendly programs to set the timezone,
often accessible through the program menus or right-clicking the
clock in a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME. You can
change the timezone on Linux, follow the simple steps below. If
you guys want to change timezone of your ubuntu machine then you
can do it by issuing: Logged in as root, check which timezone
your machine is currently using by executing `date`. You'll see
something like Mon 17 Jan 2005 12:15:08 PM PST, PST in this case
is the current timezone. Change to the directory
/usr/share/zoneinfo here you will find a list of time zone
regions. Choose the most appropriate region, if you live in
Canada or the US this directory is the "America" directory. If
you wish, backup the previous timezone configuration by copying
it to a different location. Such as mv /etc/localtime
/etc/localtime-old Create a symbolic link to the ap