How RedHat 7 modifies the time zone of Linux

RedHat 7 how to modify the time zone of Linux, I believe that many inexperienced people do not know what to do, so this article summarizes the causes of the problem and solutions, through this article I hope you can solve this problem.

The operating system is:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)

View the current time zone:

[root@ip-172-31-29-22 sysconfig] # timedatectl

Local time: Tue 2018-01-09 08:01:21 UTC

Universal time: Tue 2018-01-09 08:01:21 UTC

RTC time: Tue 2018-01-09 08:01:20

Time zone: UTC (UTC, + 0000)

NTP enabled: yes

NTP synchronized: yes

RTC in local TZ: no

DST active: n/a

Modify the time zone:

[root@ip-172-31-29-22 sysconfig] # timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Shanghai

View the modified time zone:

[root@ip-172-31-29-22] # timedatectl

Local time: Tue 2018-01-09 16:04:55 CST

Universal time: Tue 2018-01-09 08:04:55 UTC

RTC time: Tue 2018-01-09 08:04:54

Time zone: Asia/Shanghai (CST, + 0800)

NTP enabled: yes

NTP synchronized: yes

RTC in local TZ: no

DST active: n/a

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