Timedatactl Command

linux time date timezone

• Display the current time and date

  timedatectl status
  

• View current timezone

  timedatectl |grep Time
  

• View all available timezones

  timedatectl list-timezones
  

• Set local timezone

  timedatectl set-timezone "America/New_York"
  

• Set time

  timedatectl set-time 15:59:03
  

• Set date

  timedatectl set-time 20181008
  

• Set both date and time

  timedatectl set-time '2018-10-09 09:10:30'
  

• Set hardware clock to coordinated universal time (UTC)

  timedatectl set-local-rtc 0
  

• Set hardware clock to local timezone

  timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
  

• Synchronization with remote NTP server

  timedatectl set-ntp true
  

• Disable NTP time Synchronization

  timedatectl set-ntp false
  

Written on October 9, 2018