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How to set the timezone on Ubuntu
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How to set the timezone on Ubuntu

You can check your current timezone by just running...

$ date
$ Thu Nov 14 00:39:05 CST 2013

You can also check the timezone file...

$ more /etc/timezone
$ US/Central

To set the timezone just run the following command and then follow the on screen instructions.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Make sure you also restart cron to pick up the updated timezone.

$ sudo service cron stop
$ sudo service cron start
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