Updating timezone for Vicidial server

As we have done the dependencies installation and mysql configuration, here you need to focus on the timezone as its telling you in which time-stamp you are working.

Simple command to be followed and some minor adjustments.

First we have to check what timezone our server has default.

Command to be used

"date"

Mon Sep 17 22:59:24 UTC 2010

means the server is in UTC, if you wish to change the timing to PDT or any .....just remove localtime

Commands to be used

# cd /etc
# rm localtime ( it will remove local time)

Now you can check what timezones are there on your server

Command to be used

# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/ ( i have used united states, you can use Asia if you want)

Results will be ( according to the country)

Alaska          Arizona         Eastern         Hawaii          Michigan        Pacific
Aleutian        Central         East-Indiana    Indiana-Starke  Mountain        Samoa......

can be more according to the country.

Command to be used

# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/

Link the file named as there region i will link Pacific file from the above United states directory to the /etc/localtime directory as

# cd /etc
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific localtim

Now your vicidial server will be in Pacific localtim

To cross check the timezone

# date
Mon Sep 17 23:10:14 PDT 2010

Now you have got skills to change the timezone of your Linux machine .