How do I change the timezone to UTC?

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I just installed a Ubuntu 11.10 box and I'm trying to figure out how to set the timezone to UTC. I have it set to London at the moment, but UTC doesn't appear to be an option.

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score 28 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 21 '16 at 15:06

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

then go to "Etc" or "None of the above", there to UTC, enter, you're done. It actually changes files /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime.

edited Sep 21 '16 at 15:06

Chad

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answered Apr 02 '13 at 03:55

martin

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '12 at 13:07

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Unable to find UTC or GMT in the menu, I ended up running tzselect from the command prompt. I selected 11, enter posix standard time, then entered UTC-0. This appears to have done it.

thanks for all of the help.

answered Mar 31 '12 at 13:07

Thom

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 15 '14 at 18:43

This is an ugly hack, but it appears that Iceland uses year-round UTC. So setting the time zone to Atlantic/Reykjavik should work (at least until Iceland decides to change its default time zone).

(London doesn't use year-round UTC, so that's not going to work correctly.)

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 02 '12 at 20:26

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To change the time zone for your user only on the command line; edit your ~/.bashrc file and add this to it:

export TZ=UTC

edited Sep 02 '12 at 20:26

Martin Owens -doctormo-

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answered Mar 30 '12 at 15:50

Kit Ho

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How do I change the timezone to UTC?

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