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Setting a UTC Timezone

Scenario: The hosting company is in country W; the data center is in timezone X; the customer is in country Y; and their users are in country Z.

What timezone should you use for your server?  Perhaps you should try Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC).

vi /etc/sysconfig/clock and change the UTC line to: "UTC=true"

Set localtimezone to UTC: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime

If you want to set your timezone to something else, perhaps your personal timezone, then you find that timezone under /usr/share/zoneinfo and link that to /etc/localtime.  For example: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Brisbane /etc/localtime.

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