Today's article is about finding your timezone in the terminal.

[KGIII]

Exactly as the title says, though mostly useful for people managing servers in different locations:

How To: Find Your Timezone In The Terminal • Linux Tips

This article is about your system time, specifically how to find your timezone in the terminal. It's a simple article aimed at new users.

linux-tips.us

Feedback is pretty awesome.

 

[Nik-Ken-Bah]

That was good and easy and gave more time on using the terminal. Danke

 

[KGIII]

There are a bunch of similar articles - things easy to do in the terminal - under the 'command line' category:

Command Line Archives • Linux Tips

Linux Tips helps you get your Linux skills up to speed, by making Linux approachable.

linux-tips.us

Many of those are easy stuff for people just learning to use Linux. They all resolve a problem or give you information and you're likely most interested in the latter.

Like there's this article about 'tail': https://linux-tips.us/a-little-about-the-tail-command/ (which has a link to the 'head' command) and those even have practice files you'll download by using wget in the terminal.

 

[f33dm3bits]

You forgot this one, try running this on Ubuntu

ls -l /etc/localtime

 

[captain-sensible]

on Arch i'm getting :

[email protected]:~]$ ls -l /etc/localtime                                 (10-13 11:03)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 23 16:32 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB

 

[f33dm3bits]

That's because you configured that yourself, on Ubuntu it shows this as an example.

[email protected]:~$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 aug 16 20:24 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London

If you actually configured the timezone according to the Arch Installation guide you would have actually configured a Zone/SubZone. Unless you had a reason for using zoneinfo/GB?

System time - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org

I run Arch as well and I get the same as on my Ubuntu vm

 

[KGIII]

Works here on Lubuntu and, of course, Mint.

 

[captain-sensible]

don't know how i got that awry - but fixed now !