I want to change the timezone on my Ubuntu linux machine. My current timezone is:
Europe/Paris
How to change the timezone on Ubuntu?
The system’s timezone on Ubuntu is set during the install. You are able to change the timezone easily. You need to run “$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone your/TimeZone” in to command line interface on your machine. The following solution will work for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.
Checking the current configured timezone:
$ timedatectl
This gives you the output of the current configured timezone. It should look like this:
Local time: Tue 2020-08-04 12:03:49 CEST
Universal time: Tue 2020-08-04 10:03:49 UTC
RTC time: n/a
Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CEST, +0200)
System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
Set your timezone e.g. to “Europe/Berlin”:
$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Berlin
This will work work for: Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.
List available timezone on Ubuntu:
The following command will list all available timezone on your linux machine. Those timezones are able to be configured on your host.
$ timedatectl list-timezones