Centos – Where is the UTC timezone in CentOS

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I was running the CentOS installer, and was surprised that I couldn't find UTC when prompted for the timezone.

The only available choices are:

  • Etc/GMT
  • Etc/GMT±[1-12]
  • Etc/UTC

However, I recently learned that Etc/UTC is not the same as UTC.

So why is only Etc/UTC proposed and not UTC?

Best Answer

Per IANA's time zone database, Etc/UTC is the specifier for the timezone whose display name is UTC -- that is, it's UTC. So the premise of your question is incorrect.

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