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How To Configure Timezone on SLES LinuxPosted by Planet Malaysia on May 9, 2008

The following tutorial will guide you How to configure TIMEZONE on SLES Linux.

Basically you can configure Linux timezone using two methods which is using command or YaST.

Note: use timezone GMT+0 for an example below.

For YaST timezone setup, its pretty simple. Login to terminal and type:

#YasT Setup

yast timezone

Select Global, select GMT+0Hardware clock Set To: LocaltimeClick Accept.

For command line setup, youre require to know these 2 files /etc/localtime and /etc/sysconfig/clock.

#Backup existing file

mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old

cp /etc/sysconfig/clock /etc/sysconfig/clock.old

: : !

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ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT+0 /etc/localtimevi /etc/sysconfig/clock

TIMEZONE=GMT+0

HWCLOCK="--localtime"

Bear in mind, you can have different timezone setup for individual or global user by using user profile inyour system. For an example,

#Edit configuration file

vi /etc/profile or ~username/.bash_profileexport TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kuala_Lumpur

Export TZ will overwrite /etc/sysconfig/clock or /etc/localtime setup. Mean that I can use Kuala Lumpuras my separate time zone for particular user in the same system eventhrough my primary timezone setup isGMT+0.

NTP setup#Edit NTP configuration file

vi /etc/ntp.confserver 0.europe.pool.ntp.org

server 1.europe.pool.ntp.orgserver 2.europe.pool.ntp.orgserver 3.europe.pool.ntp.orgserver your.ntp.server

#Restart NTP Server

rcxntpd xntpd restart

Hardware Clock

#showing hardware clock

hwclock --show

#set the system time from the hardware clock

hwclock --hctosys

#set the hardware clock from the system time

hwclock --systohc

Done!

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