Keep in mind that though you don’t need to become root user and use sudo with the command but your account still need to have admin rights in order to change the timezone.

It won’t show any success message but the timezone is changed instantly. If you see NTP service: inactive, run the following command to enable NTP time synchronization. If you see NTP service: active in the output, your computer clock is automatically adjusted through NTP. The timezone value to be used here is Europe/Paris: timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Paris To check the current status of time and time configuration via timedatectl, run the following command: timedatectl status. Let’s say you want to set the timezone to Paris. For example, if you are looking for time zones in Europe, you may use: timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i europe You may also grep the output and search for your timezone.

You can use the up and down arrow or PgUp and PgDown key to move between the pages.

It will show you a huge list of the available time zones. To get the timezone list, use the list-timezones option of timedatectl command: timedatectl list-timezones You must use the correct format of the timezone (which is Continent/City). To set a timezone in Linux, you need to know the exact timezone. It also tells me that it is 5:30 hours ahead of GMT. You can check the current date and timezone setting using timedatectl command without any option: :~$ timedatectlĪs you can see in the output above, my system uses Asia/Kolkata. Ubuntu or any other distributions using systemd can use the timedatectl command to set timezone in Linux terminal. Method 1: Change Ubuntu timezone via terminal

Change timezone linux terminal