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Identify your current time zone

There are two ways to identify your current time zone.

date

or

ls -l /etc/localtime

Change time zone

Change “Amercia/Chicago” to the respective time zone that you want.

cp /etc/localtime /root/old.timezone
rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime

 

[Additional] Change PHP time zone

nano /etc/php.ini

Search for this line

;date.timezone =

Change it to

date.timezone = Asia/Singapore

Of course change it the time zone you want it to be

 

After running the commands above, remember to run the first step again to check that your time zone has been updated successfully.

That’s it. Changing CentOS 6 time zone is as simple as this.