RHEL-RHCSA-clock_Timezone.md
localtime Upon a successful login into the VM system, changing the Timezone to which the system’s time is configured can be accomplished by changing the /etc/localtime link . NOTE Since the implementation of systemd in RHEL7, changing the system’s default timezone manually is not persistent; as the /etc/localtime link gets recreated by systemd after a reboot, the user must use timedatectl to make the desired change persistent To change the default timezone to the timezone of Chicago, for example, execute the following as the root user: # cd /etc/ # ls -alh localtime /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/NewYork # unlink /etc/localtime # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago In the above example, we have changed the timezone from the previous value, pointing to the timezone to which “ NewYork ” belongs, to the timezone of Chicago. The systemd Method fo