Change timezone on CentOS

June 1, 2007 – 04:17 by Hannes Van de Vel

Here’s how to change the timezone on CentOS/RHEL;

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime

  1. 15 Responses to “Change timezone on CentOS”

  2. Thank you for the info. Solved my problem in 1 min

    Very handy

    By Paolo on Jan 28, 2009

  3. Thanks for the quick help

    By Consign IT on Mar 30, 2009

  4. thankyou, very easy

    By pap on Apr 5, 2009

  5. Not enough, after reboot timezone will be set to what specified in /etc/sysconfig/clock

    By fsasad on Apr 15, 2009

  6. Thanks! Very helpful!

    By Leo on Apr 17, 2009

  7. system-config-date

    By centfool on Oct 13, 2009

  8. Many Thanks !!!! Very helpful !!! do not forgot make /etc/init.d/ntpd restart after that ;)

    By Ernast on Nov 12, 2009

  9. best thanks!

    By Biwebco on Dec 21, 2009

  10. First command
    cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
    worked fine for me and I was able to get it fixed in a min… thanks

    By Shailendra on May 9, 2010

  11. very helpful thank you…

    By Ernie on Apr 26, 2011

  12. Nice and neat TNX

    By shares8 on May 27, 2011

  13. i have updated mine

    cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Costa_Rica /etc/localtime

    however it shows the time using date as

    17:42:43 CST 2011

    when that is the wrong time, it is only 11:39am right now in Costa rica….

    By Matthew on Jul 5, 2011

  14. Worked fkn MINT for Brisbane Australia :)
    Thanks!

    By Shane on Aug 16, 2011

  15. Hi Hannes,

    Thanks for the quick way ….

    By kuldeep on Jan 16, 2012

  16. Hi Hannes,

    Thanks, Solved my problem :)

    By kuldeep on Jan 16, 2012

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