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How to change the time zone in UNIX??

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my system date and time zone is PDT. whenever i append date time stamp to a file it appends the system date thats PDT date time zone. i want to append GMT time zone. is there a mechanism or option which can append the date time stamp according to GMT.

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you can see the GMT time with the -u option in date.

Code:

date -u

Code:

man date..

     -u              Display (or set) the date in Greenwich  Mean
                     Time  (GMT-universal  time),  bypassing  the
                     normal conversion to (or from) local time.

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If you're generating the date string with the date command, then read its manual page. The answer should be there.

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Are you saying that the whole server is incorrectly in the PST time zone? Implementations of where the default system time zone is set are in different places. What OS are you using?

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Some have a tz command that let you control time zone and DST settings.

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