Changing the Time Zone in on Amazon Linux 2
Before changing the time zone, you’ll need to find out the long name of the time zone you want to use. The time zone naming convention usually uses a “Region/City”
format.
To view all available time zones, use the timedatectl command
or list the files in the /usr/share/zoneinfo
directory:
timedatectl list-timezones
The output will be:
...
America/Montserrat
America/Nassau
America/New_York
America/Nipigon
America/Nome
America/Noronha
...
Once you identify which time zone is accurate to your location, run the following command as root or sudo user:
sudo timedatectl set-timezone <your_time_zone>
For example, to change the system’s timezone to Europe/Brussels
you would type:
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Brussels
To verify the change, invoke the timedatectl command again:
timedatectl
The output will be:
Local time: Fri 2022-06-17 14:04:18 CEST
Universal time: Fri 2022-06-17 12:04:18 UTC
RTC time: Fri 2022-06-17 12:04:18
Time zone: Europe/Brussels (CEST, +0200)
NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
DST active: yes
Last DST change: DST began at
Sun 2022-03-27 01:59:59 CET
Sun 2022-03-27 03:00:00 CEST
Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at
Sun 2022-10-30 02:59:59 CEST
Sun 2022-10-30 02:00:00 CET
You’ve successfully changed your system’s time zone.
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