By Edy Werder — IT Consultant & Tech Blogger
Ubuntu change timezone
Let me show you how to change the timezone for Ubuntu.
I installed an Ubuntu server, 24.04. And then I discovered that the time displayed was not correct. I was fairly certain that I had selected the time zone during the GUI installation process. Or had I not? Anyway, the time was one hour behind.
This sort of careless error can happen to anyone. So, for those of you who might sometimes find yourself in the same boat as me: don’t worry! Here’s how to fix the issue, and it’s really easy!
You must be logged in as a user with sudo privileges to change the system’s timezone.
First, list all available time zones or use this list.
- List-timezone
timedatectl list-timezones- Set-timezone
sudo timedatectl set-timezone <timeszone>Example sudo timdatectl set-timezone Europe/Zurich
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