I just installed a Ubuntu 11.10 box and I'm trying to figure out how to set the timezone to UTC. I have it set to London at the moment, but UTC doesn't appear to be an option.
Help?
I just installed a Ubuntu 11.10 box and I'm trying to figure out how to set the timezone to UTC. I have it set to London at the moment, but UTC doesn't appear to be an option.
Help?
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
then go to "Etc" or "None of the above", there to UTC, enter, you're done. It actually changes files /etc/timezone
and /etc/localtime
.
Unable to find UTC or GMT in the menu, I ended up running tzselect from the command prompt. I selected 11, enter posix standard time, then entered UTC-0. This appears to have done it.
thanks for all of the help.
This is an ugly hack, but it appears that Iceland uses year-round UTC. So setting the time zone to Atlantic/Reykjavik
should work (at least until Iceland decides to change its default time zone).
(London doesn't use year-round UTC, so that's not going to work correctly.)
To change the time zone for your user only on the command line; edit your ~/.bashrc
file and add this to it:
export TZ=UTC