Change Timezone in Linux

I think most of the new operating system templates use UTC timezone, but not everyone lives or uses UTC timezone.

Check the timezone in VPS using this command:

~# date
Fri 03 Mar 2023 03:35:03 PM UTC

Or using this command:

~# timedatectl status
               Local time: Fri 2023-03-03 15:36:30 UTC
           Universal time: Fri 2023-03-03 15:36:30 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri 2023-03-03 15:36:31
                Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

Since I'm using Ubuntu, and I live in Jakarta, Indonesia. I can change the timezone with this command:

timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Jakarta

And I believe other Linux operating systems are using the same timedatectl command too. (CentOS, Fedora, Debian)

Kindly check the list in alphabetical order of the Time Zone here:

Thanks for reading!