Mark Szidik - MLC <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> writes: > How do I change my timezone in Linux? My date command is returning CDT > instead of EDT. On Debian, you use the tzconfig utility. This just sets the link from /etc/localtime to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo; e.g., /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Michigan in my case. You can also set timezone on a per-user basis with the TZ environment variable IIRC.