Master time zone management and improve work efficiency

Guide

Time management skills in Linux machines, especially on production servers, are an extremely important aspect of system management, so here we will introduce the time management under Linux.

Linux contains a variety of time management tools available, such as date or timedatectlcommands, that you can use to get the current system time zone, or to synchronize the system times with the NTP server to automate and more accurately manage time. 1, we start with the traditional date command

Use the following command to see our current time zone:

$ date

Alternatively, you can use the following command. Where the%Z format can output time zones in the form of characters, and%Z output in digital form:

$ date + "%Z%Z"

Note: The date's hand album contains many output formats that you can use to replace the output of your date command:

$ man Date

2, Next, you can also use Timedatectl

When you run it without any parameters, this command can output the system time overview, which contains the current time zone, as shown in the following illustration:

$ timedatectl

You can then provide a pipe in the command, and then use the grep command to filter only the time zone information as follows:

$ timedatectl | grep "Time zone"

Again, we can learn how to use Timedatectl to set up the Linux time zone. 3, further, display the contents of the file/etc/timezone

displaying files using the Cat tool

/etc/timezone

To view your time zone:

$ cat/etc/timezone

For Rhel/centos/fedora users, here's another command that works the same way:

$ grep Zone/etc/sysconfig/clock

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