Hi all,

I seem to be having problems setting the time/timezone on my server. I want to set the server to London time. I've tried:

date -s 'Wed May 4 12:38 GMT 2005'

and still can't get this work. The time changes, but to something totally different to what I specified.

Any help would be great.

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
date -s 'Wed May 4 12:38 GMT 2005'
hwclock --systohc

There's three things to check.

1. The timezone setting for the server. The is /etc/localtime. If you look in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory structure you'll find the appropriate timezone that you wish to use. Then issue these commands (I'll use US Central Time in the example):

2. The system date for the server. You already know how to do this one. Do a 'date' command to grab what it thinks the time is after you set your TZ correctly, then set it with 'date -s'
3. The hardware date for the server. Sync the hardware clock to what the OS says the time is:


That should do it!

One note: If this is a VPS all you can do is change the timezone.

Hehe .. .I was faster