Hi guys,
I was wondering if there is a way of knowing what is the current set timezone for a linux server.

I know that "date +%Z" gives the 3 letter abbrevation of the timezone, but then CST can be interpreted as Central Standard Time (US) and as China Standard Time.

I'm looking for a way i could tell what is the real timezone, e.g. "Asia/Jerusalem", "Europe/London", etc.

I know that i can set the timezone by symlinking /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Timezone Name> to /etc/localtime, but when i freshly install CentOS and choose my timezone, /etc/localtime isn't a symlink at all so i can't use this info...

Any ideas?

You could look in /etc/timezone (if this exists on CentOS). Also check if TZ has been set (echo $TZ).

By doing 'date -R' you can at least view the timezone offset, which may be useful.

cat /etc/sysconfig/clock ?

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YES!!
Thanks a lot