LKBEN11025: Howto set the timezone from the command line

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

You want to change or set your timezone

Cause

none

Solution

For setting the timezone you use the tzconfig command.

This command should be run as root and should be started without parameters.

tzconfig
Your current time zone is set to Europe/Berlin
Do you want to change that? [n]:
Your time zone will not be changed

For more information you can use man tzconfig. 

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.

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