How to change your server's default time zone.

To change the Time Zone for your virtual server, do the following:

At a command prompt, type:

chmod 600 ~/etc/localtime

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/US/Pacific ~/etc/localtime

Here is a list of possible zones (substitute one of these instead of "Pacific" shown above):

Alaska
Central
Hawaii
Mountain
Aleutian
East-Indiana
Indiana-Starke
Pacific
Arizona
Eastern
Michigan
Samoa

If you want a European time zone, type this instead:

chmod 600 ~/etc/localtime

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/London ~/etc/localtime

Here is a list of possible zones (substitute one of these instead of "London" shown above):

Amsterdam, Andorra, Athens, Belfast, Belgrade, Berlin, Bratislava,
Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Chisinau, Copenhagen, Dublin, Gibraltar,
Helsinki, Istanbul, Kiev, Kuybyshev, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London,
Luxembourg, Madrid, Malta, Minsk, Monaco, Moscow, Oslo, Paris,
Prague, Riga, Rome, Sarajevo, Simferopol, Skopje, Sofia, Stockholm,
Tallinn, Tirane, Vaduz, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich

There are more time zones in these files:

/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Canada
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Austrailia

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