[root@USWEB01 ~]# date
Sat May 10 12:01:05 UTC 2014
[root@USWEB01 ~]# ls -alF /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 Mar 9 2013 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
[root@USWEB01 ~]# rm /etc/localtime
rm: remove symbolic link `/etc/localtime'? y
[root@USWEB01 ~]# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
[root@USWEB01 ~]# ls -alF /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 May 10 13:02 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
[root@USWEB01 ~]# date
Sat May 10 13:02:38 BST 2014
[root@USWEB01 ~]# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/
Africa Asia CET Cuba Egypt GB GMT-0 Hongkong Israel Libya Mexico PRC Portugal Turkey Universal iso3166.tab zone.tab
America Atlantic CST6CDT EET Eire GB-Eire GMT0 Iceland Jamaica MET NZ PST8PDT ROC UCT W-SU posix
Antarctica Australia Canada EST Etc GMT Greenwich Indian Japan MST NZ-CHAT Pacific ROK US WET posixrules
Arctic Brazil Chile EST5EDT Europe GMT+0 HST Iran Kwajalein MST7MDT Navajo Poland Singapore UTC Zulu right
[root@USWEB01 ~]# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/
Amsterdam Belgrade Bucharest Copenhagen Helsinki Kaliningrad London Mariehamn Nicosia Prague San_Marino Sofia Tiraspol Vienna Zagreb
Andorra Berlin Budapest Dublin Isle_of_Man Kiev Luxembourg Minsk Oslo Riga Sarajevo Stockholm Uzhgorod Vilnius Zaporozhye
Athens Bratislava Busingen Gibraltar Istanbul Lisbon Madrid Monaco Paris Rome Simferopol Tallinn Vaduz Volgograd Zurich
Belfast Brussels Chisinau Guernsey Jersey Ljubljana Malta Moscow Podgorica Samara Skopje Tirane Vatican Warsaw
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