CentOS 6.2 – How to Change Timezone

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Here is the output of my date command:

[root@r1304 ~]# date
Wed Apr 18 15:43:28 GST 2012

I want to change the default system timezone to Asia/Dubai. I've followed a tutorial and did this:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Dubai /etc/localtime

But with no effect. Seems that this is done differently in CentOS 6. How do I change the timezone?

Best Answer

It looks like that CentOS 6.2 doesn't have any hwclock line in it /etc/rc.sysinit, so changing /etc/sysconfig/clock will not work.

Try tzselect or use ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/xxxx /etc/localtime

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