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The time on the Amazon Linux AMI is set, by default to UTC. To change this, symlink one of the timezone files from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ to /etc/localtime. The change takes effect immediately (and will also affect most logs, etc). For example:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
To make the change persist through updates, it is necessary to set the ZONE parameter in /etc/sysconfig/clock as well. This parameter specifies the file under /usr/share/zoneinfo that is to be used. For instance:
ZONE="EST5EDT"
I get this error:
/etc/localtimeis owned by root – you must, therefore, perform the operation as the superuser. Prefix the command withsudoand it should work fine. i.e.:(Of course, if you aren’t in the
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