****Changing the Time Zone

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 18:31 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I have an FC/Redhat/CentOS box and I would like to change my time zone
> for the entire system and all users to UTC; date –u seems to only
> changes the individual users zone.  And, since I don’t have a GUI on
> my box I can not use system-config-time.  So, I was
> thinking /etc/localtime should be a simlink to the time zone
> in /usr/share/zoneinformation rite?  I can just change that with a new
> symlink, rite? But the file I have in /etc/localtime is a small binary
> file and that made me nervous.  Then I thought, setup, how much more
> basic could I get!  But it does not have a time zone option, only
> Authentication and System Services. 
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system-config-date

Craig