Setting the timezone on Ubuntu is very useful if you are dual-booting on a machine with Windows. This is an easy task, having the timezone set to UTC can cause problems.
Check the current timezone with this command.
┏jcartwright@jcartwright-System-Version╼╸╸╸╸╸╸╾ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◉:~$ timedatectl status Local time: Sun 2024-02-04 14:41:33 AEDT Universal time: Sun 2024-02-04 03:41:33 UTC RTC time: Sun 2024-02-04 03:41:33 Time zone: Australia/Sydney (AEDT, +1100) System clock synchronized: yes NTP service: active RTC in local TZ: no |
Get a listing of all time zones with this command.
┏jcartwright@jcartwright-System-Version╼╸╸╸╸╸╸╾ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◉:~$ sudo timedatectl list-timezones Africa/Abidjan Africa/Accra Africa/Addis_Ababa Africa/Algiers Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera Africa/Bamako Africa/Bangui Africa/Banjul Africa/Bissau Africa/Blantyre Africa/Brazzaville Africa/Bujumbura Africa/Cairo Africa/Casablanca Africa/Ceuta Africa/Conakry Africa/Dakar Africa/Dar_es_Salaam Africa/Djibouti Africa/Douala Africa/El_Aaiun Africa/Freetown Africa/Gaborone Africa/Harare Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Juba Africa/Kampala Africa/Khartoum Africa/Kigali Africa/Kinshasa Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville Africa/Lome Africa/Luanda Africa/Lubumbashi |
Then, once you have selected a time zone, use this command to set the new time zone.
┏jcartwright@jcartwright-System-Version╼╸╸╸╸╸╸╾ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◉:~$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone Australia/Sydney |
This is very easy to do, but very helpful.