So in this way, you can change time zone in CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. OR ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtimeĪfter setting up, verify the changes date I’m using for CST ( Central Standard Time) ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime ~]$ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/AfricaĪbidjan Bissau Dar_es_Salaam Kampala Lusaka NiameyĪccra Blantyre Djibouti Khartoum Malabo NouakchottĪddis_Ababa Brazzaville Douala Kigali Maputo OuagadougouĪlgiers Bujumbura El_Aaiun Kinshasa Maseru Porto-NovoĪsmara Cairo Freetown Lagos Mbabane Sao_TomeĪsmera Casablanca Gaborone Libreville Mogadishu Timbuktuīamako Ceuta Harare Lome Monrovia Tripoliīangui Conakry Johannesburg Luanda Nairobi Tunisīanjul Dakar Juba Lubumbashi Ndjamena WindhoekĬreate a link with the time zone you want to use. Through this view, you can either search for a time zone through the search bar or manually move to your time zone through the mouse. You can also navigate to the country specific directory like /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa directory would contain the Africa Time Zone. In the Date & Time settings in the Ubuntu Settings utility, switch off the Automatic Time zone button if it is turned on: Then click the Date & Time option in order to change the time zone. Now, use ls command to list the all time zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. Here you can see that my system is Configured with Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Use the date command to see the current time zone. We’ll change the time zone from GMT to EST. We can also set the time zone by the local time file. Mon Dec 23 10:46: Using /etc/localtime file You can verify the time zone by running date rootkerneltalks timedatectl set-timezone Africa/Malabo rootkerneltalks date Wed Nov 15 16:59: In the output, you can see we have changed the timezone of the server to the WAT timezone. You can also filter the time zone for your cities by running timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i chicago To change timezone of server, use timedatectl with set-timezone argument and its value. Now, choose the desire one which you want to set up on your CentOS system. Output will list all available Time zones like Africa/Abidjan First, list the available time zone by typing the below command in your terminal.