Changing time zone

Skaperen · 06-19-2009, 02:02 PM

I have a dedicated server with root access running Debian that was set up in the wrong time zone. The files that control time zone I have found and could manually modify. However, before doing it that way (I would if it were Slackware) I'd like to ask if there is some "official" admin tool in Debian for changing the time zone. If there is, I'd rather do that to make sure all things are covered.

the trooper · 06-19-2009, 02:11 PM

You can use tzselect.
Here's a link that may help:

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/time.htm

Skaperen · 06-19-2009, 05:55 PM

The link suggested it would set the time, but the man page said it would not. I tried, anyway, and it did not set the time. It did tell me the environment variable (TZ) to change, and what to change it to, for the current session time zone. The man page did say the command to use was:

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and that then did set the time zone widely. So thanks for the lead.

the trooper · 06-20-2009, 10:47 AM

Cool.Looks like we have both learned something here.