- After purchasing the VPs and centos systems, we found that the server time is often different from that in Beijing time, and there is a time difference.
[[Email protected] workspace] $ date Wednesday, May 30, 2018 02:02:47 UTC
- You can run the tzselect command to change the time zone as prompted. Select 5-Asia, 9-China, and 1-beijing time in sequence.
Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.Please select a continent or ocean. 1) Africa 2) Americas 3) Antarctica 4) Arctic Ocean 5) Asia 6) Atlantic Ocean 7) Australia 8) Europe 9) Indian Ocean10) Pacific Ocean11) none - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.#? 5Please select a country. 1) Afghanistan 18) Israel 35) Palestine 2) Armenia 19) Japan 36) Philippines 3) Azerbaijan 20) Jordan 37) Qatar 4) Bahrain 21) Kazakhstan 38) Russia 5) Bangladesh 22) Korea (North) 39) Saudi Arabia 6) Bhutan 23) Korea (South) 40) Singapore 7) Brunei 24) Kuwait 41) Sri Lanka 8) Cambodia 25) Kyrgyzstan 42) Syria 9) China 26) Laos 43) Taiwan10) Cyprus 27) Lebanon 44) Tajikistan11) East Timor 28) Macau 45) Thailand12) Georgia 29) Malaysia 46) Turkmenistan13) Hong Kong 30) Mongolia 47) United Arab Emirates14) India 31) Myanmar (Burma) 48) Uzbekistan15) Indonesia 32) Nepal 49) Vietnam16) Iran 33) Oman 50) Yemen17) Iraq 34) Pakistan#? 9Please select one of the following time zone regions.1) Beijing Time2) Xinjiang Time#? 1The following information has been given: China Beijing TimeTherefore TZ=‘Asia/Shanghai‘ will be used.Local time is now: Wed May 30 10:04:16 CST 2018.Universal Time is now: Wed May 30 02:04:16 UTC 2018.Is the above information OK?1) Yes2) No#? 1You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line TZ=‘Asia/Shanghai‘; export TZto the file ‘.profile‘ in your home directory; then log out and log in again.Here is that TZ value again, this time on standard output so that youcan use the /usr/bin/tzselect command in shell scripts:Asia/Shanghai
- Set
TZ=‘Asia/Shanghai‘; export TZ
Add this line to/etc/profile (all users take effect) or ~ /. Bash_profile (effective for the current user)
- Log out and log on again. You can also execute
source /etc/profile
Orsource ~/.bash_profile
Effective immediately
- At this time, execute date to view the date and you will find that the time zone is changed to Beijing time.
[[Email protected] workspace] $ date Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:07:11 CST
Change centos server time to Beijing Time