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I have a Ubuntu server on Amazon AWS EC2. When I log in there, I see there the following system information:

System information as of Mon Apr 11 06:42:30 UTC 2016

I am currently in LA, CA - so here's +3 hours from the datetime above. In the best case, I'd like to have on this server NYC time (because of our client).

How to do that?

Thank you.

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With timedatectl

https://askubuntu.com/a/634541

timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles

UTC is considered handy when your server communicates with other servers. It ensures they have a common timestamp. If your server is otherwise standalone, you can set it to whatever you want. Most indeed choose one that matches their own timezone, or one of the people who most use it.

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