TZDATA [0] ________________________________________________________________________________ The Time Zone Database (called tz, tzdb or zoneinfo) contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. Configuration ________________________________________________________________________________ Begin by first verifying that you have tzdata installed: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b tzdata && kiss i tzdata | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Look for the available timezones in /usr/share/zoneinfo/: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Write your preferred timezone to the /etc/timezone file: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ echo "TZ" > /etc/timezone | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Remember to replace TZ with with your preferred timezone. For example, if I lived in the US Eastern timezone, I would replace TZ with "US/Eastern". Lastly, copy the preferred timezone file to /etc/localtime: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ cp TZ_PATH /etc/localtime | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Remember to replace TZ_PATH with with the complete timezone path. For the example given above, the complete TZ_PATH for "US/Eastern" would be "/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern". As an optional final step, remove the tzdata package. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss r tzdata | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ References ________________________________________________________________________________ [0] https://github.com/eggert/tz [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Timezone [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_time