Change timezone ,date and time in ubuntu linux by text mode
Want to change timezone for your ubuntu ??? if you are using graphic mode, there’s no problem to do it cause you just need to click and click .
If you using ubuntu in text mode, to change your timezone to your localtime just follow this intructions :
to check your date :
date
make a backup of your localtime :
mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime-old
copy your timezone ( example in my area is /Asia/Makassar)
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Makassar /etc/localtime
To change your date and time just follow this ( example : 09 July 2009 22:45:44 )
date -s “09 July 2009 22:45:44″









