Setting time zone

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smith.norton · #1 Post by **smith.norton** » 2007-05-26 08:20

I am using Debian to host Apache web server. So it doesn't have GNome or KDE desktop. I can work only from the console.

Whenever I enter the 'date' command, I get the output in UTC. I want to set my own time-zone and I want the 'date' command to show the output for that particular time zone. (say, EST).

How can this be done?

Thanks in advance!

kink · #2 Post by **kink** » 2007-05-26 09:24

Try the command:

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tzselect

Harold · #3 Post by **Harold** » 2007-05-26 19:26

Man pages are your friends!

date -R

smith.norton · #4 Post by **smith.norton** » 2007-05-27 09:13

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I had checked the man pages and 'date -R' was not serving my purpose. What I want is that when I simply give the date command, it should print the date in the current time zone.

smith.norton · #5 Post by **smith.norton** » 2007-05-27 09:28

I get the following error when I enter the tzselect command.

tzselect
/usr/bin/tzselect: line 53: /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tzselect: time zone files are not set up correctly

The directory /usr/share/zoneinfo is not present in my system. How can I get them? apt-get install something?

smith.norton · #6 Post by **smith.norton** » 2007-05-27 10:21

apt-get install tzdata solved my problem. Thanks all of you for your help.