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For various reasons my Linux box is running only at runlevel 3. I need to change the timezone of the box. How do I go about doing this?

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What do time zone and runlevel have to do with each other? – wfaulk Oct 12 '09 at 16:45
runlevel 3 means there is no X. – Andrejs Cainikovs Oct 13 '09 at 6:29
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On Debian & Ubuntu systems the proper way to do this is:

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
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# cd /etc
# mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London localtime

Zoneinfo directory structure may vary for some distros.

More info here and here.

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