How to set the time zone in Amazon EC2?

I want to change the time zone set in my Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu Linux to local time?

My Question

How to change the time zone in Amazon EC2?

Solution 1:

it should be no different than your desktop Ubuntu process. See here

1. SSH to your EC2 server

2. execute the following (to set timezone to Australia/Adelaide)

   $ echo "Australia/Adelaide" | sudo tee /etc/timezone
   Australia/Adelaide
   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
   
   Current default time zone: 'Australia/Adelaide'
   Local time is now:      Sat May  8 21:19:24 CST 2010.
   Universal Time is now:  Sat May  8 11:49:24 UTC 2010.
   

Update

You can use tzselect utility to browse through. See here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/tzselect.1.html

It's an interactive software. My Ubuntu (11.10) has it.

You could also refer this Wikipedia article

Brazil

Brazil/Acre
Brazil/DeNoronha
Brazil/East
Brazil/West

Solution 2:

Another way of changing the time (This was done on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance)

Remove your localtime file

sudo rm /etc/localtime

Change Directory to ZoneInfo

cd /usr/share/zoneinfo

This folder contains all of the timezone information. You then just need to softlink to the appropriate zone.

Create a softlink to /etc/localtime

sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB /etc/localtime

That will change your server timezone to GB