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GridPane >Knowledge Base > How do I change my Servers Timezone?

How do I change my Servers Timezone?

Steve B
Updated on 25th July 2020

1 min read

If you’d like to change the timezone for your servers, you can do this by running a command on your server.

If you haven’t connected to your servers over SSH before, please see the following articles to get started:

Generate your SSH Key:

Generate SSH Key on Mac

Generate SSH Key on Windows with Putty

Generate SSH Key on Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Generate SSH Key on Windows with Windows CMD/PowerShell

Add your SSH Key to GridPane:

Add default SSH Keys

Add/Remove an SSH Key to/from an Active GridPane Server

Connect to your server:

Connect to a GridPane server by SSH as Root user.

Default Server Time

By default your servers will be on UTC time. You can confirm this by typing the following command and pressing enter:

date

The output will look like this but with the correct date and time: Sat Jul 25 17:18:12 UTC 2020

Update your Timezone

First run the following to list available timezones:

timedatectl list-timezones

Use your down-arrow key to navigate down until you find your timezone, and hit Control+C to exit once you’ve got it.

You can now reset your timezone with this command:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone 

Examples:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Paris
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Singapore
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

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