How To Set Timezone And Enable Network Time Sync (NTP) From The Command Line | Linux Today

How To Set Timezone And Enable Network Time Sync (NTP) From The Command Line

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Jul 22, 2019

This article explains how to use timedatectl to change the timezone and enable automatic synchronization of the system clock with a remote server using the NTP (Network Time Synchronization) protocol on Linux.

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