How To Use Etc Localtime

The timezone information is universally kept under etc localtime.

How to use etc localtime. The timezone is conntrolled by localtime file located in etc directory. Root kerneltalks ll etc localtime lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 jan 16 22 10 etc localtime usr share zoneinfo europe oslo. 1 root root 34 feb 16 03 07 etc localtime usr share zoneinfo asia kolkata use the following command to check the current timezone on systemd system. Change timezone using etc localtime file.

1 log on to the linux server and switch user to root execute the date command to find the current time date and time zone of the linux server. Change timezone on a centos 6 and 7. Cd etc localtime is a symbolic link so we can remove it rm localtime all timezones are located under. Where localtime is a soft link to the zone file located under usr share zoneinfo region. To dual boot with windows it is recommended to configure windows to use utc rather than linux to use localtime.

1 root root 25 jul 11 16 06 etc localtime usr share zoneinfo utc root kerneltalks ls lrt usr share zoneinfo total 284 rw r r. The value of timer is broken up into the structure tm and expressed in the local time zone. You would like to change this to pacific. Open regedit and add a dword value for 32 bit windows or qword for 64 bit one with hexadecimal value 1 to the registry. Use one of the following methods to change the timezone on your linux system.

If the tz env variable is not set glibc will go look at the etc localtime file every time or rather it will check if etc localtime has changed since the last time it was read which is what the stat calls does nos sep 24 14 at 15 38. One of these methods should work for you depending on the linux distribution you are using. Following is the declaration for localtime function. Date mon feb 18 18 40 10 ist 2019. Check the current timezone using etc localtime file.

Etc localtime it is a symlink to the file localtime or to the correct timezone file in the system located in usr share zoneinfo directory. Windows by default uses localtime. For this example assume that your current timezone is utc as shown below. Ls l etc localtime lrwxrwxrwx. Assume we have timezone utc.