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Changing timezone on Debian keeps Local Time in UTC
I'm trying to get programs to log in local time for my own sanity.
I have updated my timezone with:
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
But the result of that command is:
Current default time zone: ...
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How to get time synced outputs (different timezones on servers)?
So imagine there are ~100 servers with different timezones (not all diff., but many-many timezones). There are outputs on the server logs like:
server1:BFE4C025 0420201413 P H sysplanar0 ...
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How to change time and date which is in CST? [closed]
I am new to linux. Can anyone help me in changing the time and date which is in CST.
I am using RHEL5 linux. I have only CLI. No UI.
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Wrong timezone offset. How do I correct it? (help with zic timezone compiler)
I have an iPod touch (2nd gen) and constant troubles with the clock setting itself one hour ahead of the actual time when I connect it to the computer.
long story short, When I SSH into the device:
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How to set tz and date without restart in Debian Squeeze?
I've tried tzselect and all it appears to do is tell me what region I want to pick.
I'm trying to change tz without a restart and for all users, then sync the time accordingly.
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crontab and DST disagreement with different timezone
From a server hosted in Poland (UTC +01:00), is there a way I can consistently have a crontab entry run at 9am New York time (UTC -05:00)?
For me this wasn't trivial since the daylight saving time ...
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What timezone formats are there?
What timezone formats exists on UNIX systems? Can someone gather them in a short answer? How can I recognize them?
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How can I have `date` output the time from a different timezone?
I have a server running with the timezone set to UTC. It seemed like that was generally a good practice (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Anyhow, one of the servers I connect to, in order to scp ...
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How can I set the time in Centos so that resetting the OS doesn't revert to its default value?
I have a VPS running on Cent Os 5.8 (x86). There are situations in which we are forced to reset the entire VPS (it hangs and the only way to get it back on is to reset it). When we do so, the time is ...
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Run an application with different TimeZone
I have an windows application (Under Wine) that only works when I change timezone to NewYork's TimeZone.
with Any other zone it doesn't start!!
So, Is it possible in Linux to run an application with ...
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Setting timezones
I want to set my timezone to America/New_York. date says that the current time is CEST. I'm using systemd, no desktop environment.
Right now I have
/etc/localtime links to ...
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bash terminal [\t] (time) is not same timezone as 'date'
In my .bashrc file I configured how I would like my prompt to be displayed. My .bashrc is sourced in .bash_profile. The command in the .bashrc file is:
PS1='[\t] \u@\h is $PWD :: '
I switched the ...
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What does XST in the date command output mean?
When executing the date command (on CentOS), it gives me something like this:
Thu May 10 20:15:07 XST 2012
My local time zone is CEST, which was at that moment 22:15:07, so the printed time ...
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Why is zone.tab missing so many time zones?
There are over a thousand time zone files on your typical *nix box (in /user/share/zoneinfo). Many of them vary only in historical dates which have little relevance for programs which care only about ...
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How to set up FreeBSD for my region?
im currently installing FreeBSD. Im at the "Time Zone Selector" screen. I don't know what should i choose. Normally, since i live in Quebec (Canada), i choose Eastern time GMT -5, but there is no such ...
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Is there anything in unix crontab to determine this should be executed in PST/CST standard time?
There is this thing in QuartzScheduler where we can say execute this in CST/BST/ or whatever timezone. This is also good when you want to execute some jobs in certain timezones and certain jobs in ...
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Querying the current time of a city from terminal
I have friends all over the globe and before calling them I need to know their current time. Is there an application in Linux where one can query a city (if exists) in terminal (something like this): ...
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How to add a custom timezone clock to an XFCE panel?
My local time is CET (Prague, EU), I also need to see UTC and, some times, MSK time. Can I add multiple clocks with different zones to a panel in XFCE? I know how to add multiple clocks, actually, but ...
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Russian timezone is not up-to-date
I have noticed, that the Russian timezone is not up-to-date. The GMT offset is set to +3 h now, whereas the current GMT offset is +4 hours.
Could someone tell me how can i manually edit the tzdata ...
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Debugging Java program for changing timezone configuration file on Ubuntu
Here is a ruby script I wrote to change the timezone configuration on Ubuntu. I run it with jruby (a Ruby interpreter running in a JVM).
require 'java'
if ARGV.length == 0
puts "Usage: jruby ...
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How to get the timezone of a FTP server?
With lftp, when I do ls I get the listing of the files on the FTP server, with their date. However, the timezone is not displayed.
On my local machine, I can do ls -l --time-style=full-iso to see ...
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How to set CST timezone w/o daylight period?
I want to configure linux box to use CST w/o daylight. My first idea was using the UTC-06 zone file, but for some weird reason it provides UTC+6, not UTC-6 time!
After that I read the List of tz ...
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/etc/shadow date of last password change—UTC or local time?
man 5 shadow gives the following description of the third field in each line:
The date of the last password change, expressed as the number of days since Jan 1, 1970.
The value 0 has a ...
