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I want to change the time zone set in my Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu Linux to local time?
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How to change the time zone in Amazon EC2?
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On the AWS Elemental Server web interface, go to the Settings page and choose General. In Timezone, choose your required time zone. Choose Update.
Change the time zone You can change the time to correspond to your local time zone or a time zone for another part of your network. From your instance, open a Command Prompt window. Locate the time zone ID to assign to the instance. The new time zone should take effect immediately.
It's not possible to move an existing instance to another subnet, Availability Zone, or VPC. Instead, you can manually migrate the instance by creating a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the source instance. Then, launch a new instance using the new AMI in the desired subnet, Availability Zone, or VPC.
To launch the instance in a Local Zone, select a subnet that you created in the Local Zone. To launch an instance in an Outpost, select a subnet in a VPC that you associated with an Outpost. Auto-assign Public IP: Specify whether your instance receives a public IPv4 address.
it should be no different than your desktop Ubuntu process. See here
execute the following (to set timezone to Australia/Adelaide)
$ echo "Australia/Adelaide" | sudo tee /etc/timezone Australia/Adelaide $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata Current default time zone: 'Australia/Adelaide' Local time is now: Sat May 8 21:19:24 CST 2010. Universal Time is now: Sat May 8 11:49:24 UTC 2010. Update
You can use tzselect utility to browse through. See here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/tzselect.1.html
It's an interactive software. My Ubuntu (11.10) has it.
You could also refer this Wikipedia article
Brazil
Brazil/Acre Brazil/DeNoronha Brazil/East Brazil/West Another way of changing the time (This was done on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance)
Remove your localtime file
sudo rm /etc/localtime Change Directory to ZoneInfo
cd /usr/share/zoneinfo This folder contains all of the timezone information. You then just need to softlink to the appropriate zone.
Create a softlink to /etc/localtime
sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB /etc/localtime That will change your server timezone to GB
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