Skip to main content

Change Time Zone

If you wish to change the Time zone of the computer, you can do so with the following.

List Available Time Zones​

timedatectl list-timezones

This will display a list of hundreds of time zones. For example, Africa/Dakar, Etc/GMT-5, UTC, etc.

Specify Time Zone​

Replace [timezone] in the command below with the desired Time zone. As examples:

  • If the computer is located in Ireland, you could replace [timezone] with Europe/Dublin or GMT.
  • System Administrators often prefer UTC so you could replace [timezone] with UTC.
sudo timedatectl set-timezone [timezone]

Verify Time Zone​

timedatectl status