Month: July 2016

So we have provisioned servers in the cloud but the time is in UTC.

You wanted to use BST, this is how it can be done.

1) Log onto the SOA Server

2) All the timezones you can use can be found in the following /usr/share/zoneinfo –  As root change the target for localtime as below

# cd /etc
# ls -la localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 4 10:36 localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
# rm localtime
rm: remove symbolic link `localtime'? y
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London localtime
[root@pr02sob1-jcs-wls-1 etc]# ls -la localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 1 12:59 localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London

3) When we reboot, we want this setting to be permanent , so we do the following :

# vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
ZONE="Europe/London"

Save/Exit
4) Reboot the server
5) Log into EM.