[CentOS] System Time - UTC and Local Time

[Johan Martinez]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Digvijay Patankar <dbpatankar at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Johan Martinez <jmartiee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have installed CentOS on a VM by checking 'System Clock uses UTC'
> option.
> > Later I selected CST time zone. Now the date command shows UTC time with
> > CST timezone:  "Thu Dec  1 04:14:39 CST 2011".  How do I change system
> > clock to show CST local time? Also, more likely a dumb question but why
> > isn't date command showing UTC here instead of CST?
> >
> > jM
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>
> This will be useful to you.
>
> http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html
>
> With regards,
>
>
>
Thanks for the useful link. It was really helpful.

jM.