Change timezone on Linux server
You can change the time zone for your server by using following command.
First check the server current date
root@admin[~]#date
Tue Aug 14 10:10:29 EST 2018
As per above output, current timezone is EST.
For example we are changing time zone from EST to IST
root@admin[~]#ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime
root@admin[~]#date
Tue Aug 14 19:49:35 IST 2018
You can select a timezone as per your requirement by selecting a correct timezone present under the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo
