How to Set Time, Timezone and Synchronize System Clock Using timedatectl Command | Linux Today

How to Set Time, Timezone and Synchronize System Clock Using timedatectl Command

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Feb 6, 2020

The timedatectl command is a new utility for RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 21+ based distributions, which comes as a part of systemd system and service manager, a replacement for old traditional date command used in sysvinit daemon based Linux distributions.

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