To change the time zone in Linux systems use the sudo timedatectl set-timezone command followed by the long name of the time zone you want to set.

To set the timezone in Linux, update /etc/localtime with the appropriate timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo. Example:? This would set your time zone to PST/PDT (Pacific Time) because that is the time zone Los Angles is located in.

You can check timezone in Linux by simply running timedatectl command and checking the time zone section of the output as shown below. Instead of checking the entire output you can also just grep the zone keyword from timedatectl command output and get the timezone as shown below.

To view your current timezone you can cat the file’s contents. Another method is to use the date command. By giving it the argument +%Z , you can output your system’s current time zone name. To get the timezone name and offset, you can use the data command with the +”%Z %z” argument.

Converting Pacific Standard Time to Other US Time Zones Pacific Standard Time (PST) is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time (EST). To convert PST to EST, you have to add three hours. Pacific Standard Time (PST) is 2 hours behind Central Standard Time (CST).

How to Check Timezone in Linux

1. Using the command timedatectl to display timezone.
2. Using pipeline feature of Linux on timedatectl and grep to display timezone.
3. using cat /etc/timezone commands to find the timezone.
4. A step by step process to display timezone using cd and cat commands.
5. Using date command to display timezone.

To set the timezone in Linux, update /etc/localtime with the appropriate timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo. Example:? This would set your time zone to PST/PDT (Pacific Time) because that is the time zone Los Angles is located in.

When Daylight Saving (Savings) Time or DST is in use, the clocks are on Pacific Daylight Time, abbreviated as PDT, which is 7 hours behind GMT: GMT-7 When DST is not in use, the clocks are on Pacific Standard Time, abbreviated as PST, 8 hours behind GMT: GMT-8

US/Pacific and PST8PDT both belong to the “other” timezones, which come with this warning: Please do not use any of the timezones listed here (besides UTC), they only exist for backward compatible reasons. They should all refer to the same timezone, compare:

As far as practical advice, don’t set US/Pacific-New on any system. It is no longer a valid time zone identifier. The whole system will be affected by this. Switch to America/Los_Angeles instead.