How to change the system timezone in Ubuntu

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How to change the system timezone in Ubuntu

open the terminal and go to the server Following the below steps

Step 1:
gives the below commands to check the timezone

 timedatectl

Step 2:
To check for available timezones in your server

And select anyone for your need

 timedatectl list-timezones

Step 3:

Search for your time zone from the list of available time zones

Select your timezone it shows whether know or not

 timedatectl list-timezones | grep -i Asia/Singapore

Step 4:
Set a new timezone using the below commands

We need to set up the new timezone

 sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Singapore

Step 5:

Unlink your currently-used timezone

First, we need to unlink the currently used timezone

 sudo unlink /etc/localtime

Link to your new timezone.

And we need to set the new link timezone

 sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Singapore /etc/localtime

Step 6:

check whether it’s changed or not

If it is changed your changed timezone then that’s a good job

 timedatectl