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How to set Amazon Aws server time? Cannot find file / etc / sysconfig / clock

I need to change the time to Singapore time.

I read the documentation there that I am editing the clock file inside: / Etc. / sysconfig /

Documenation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/set-time.html

I did cd /etc/sysconfig and I got No Such File Directory

I also did ls /etc/ there really is no sysconfig folder there. I found the timezone file, so I tried

 sudo nano /etc/timezone

Only ETC / UTC is indicated in the file

How to change the time zone

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If the file / etc / sysconfig / clock is missing, execute it and create it. Add the two appropriate lines referenced by the documentation, create the required symbolic link, and then restart the server.

 ZONE="Asia/Singapore" UTC=false
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There was no need to perform step 2 of the documentation. It was just necessary to execute these commands.

 sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime sudo reboot
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If you cannot find /etc/sysconfig/clock , this is probably the case if you are on a disto that does not use it. At least for Ubuntu 15-17 and RHEL / CentOS 7 you can use the timedatectl utility.

Show current settings

 timedatectl

List of available time zones

 timedatectl list-timezones

Set time zone

 sudo timedatectl set-timezone <timezone>

This will take care of changing the symbolic link /etc/localtime .

Links: RHEL Guide , Ubuntu timedatectl (1)

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