Configuring time and date on your Linux server using NTP

Posted 8 years ago - updated 8 years ago sysadmin

Use NTP to configure time and dates for you

yum install ntp

Start

service ntpd start

Start on reboot

chkconfig ntpd on

Get it to update now

/usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org

Check your timezone

date will tell you EST, GMT etc

`Wed Feb 10 07:18:42 EST 2016`

To change:

• See where ls /etc/localtime is linked to

• Make sure your timezone is listed in ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/

  etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York

• Change if wrong

  rm /etc/localtime
  ln –s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB /etc/localtime