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Now, verify timezone again using timedatectl command: timedatectl Sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

Take the long name of timezone for your location, run the following command as root or user with sudo privileges. It will show output like below: Africa/Abidjan To get the list of all available timezones run below command: timedatectl list-timezones

/etc/localtime – This is a symlink to the file localtime located in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory.Īt first, you should know long name for timezone for which you want to set.

For example, the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York represents time zone for New York. /usr/share/zoneinfo/ – Timezone name wise files are stored in this directory.You can check the symbolic link using the following command: ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 01 May 21 20:21 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC Timezone Config Files of Ubuntu # The /etc/localtime is a link to the original timezone file.