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Timezones

How to Set a Timezone with the Timezone Equivalent List

In lunash, the sysconf timezone command allows you to change the current system timezone setting to a value appropriate to your locality and your situation. You may prefer to use only GMT, or you may wish to match your local timezone.

Note that the time zone code reported by sysconf timezone show is a localized abbreviation. For example, the following two commands set the time zone code to “EST” (during periods when daylight savings time is not in effect).

sysconf timezone set America/Kentucky/Louisville

sysconf timezone set Australia/Brisbane

For more information on time zone abbreviations, please visit: http://www.worldtimezone.com/

The time system accepts local settings as either an offset from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT +3 hours, GMT -5 hours, etc.) or as city/state names.

If you choose a named timezone, the system attempts to implement the Daylight Saving Time regime – setting the system time forward one hour on the appropriate date, and back one hour to standard time on the date appropriate for your locality.
If you choose GMT plus-or-minus a numeric offset, then that value is fixed, and the system does not attempt to implement Daylight Saving Time. If you require an adjustment, then you must make it yourself, by manually issuing the appropriate time-change.

The remainder of this Help page is the list of available timezone codes.

If a heading is subdivided, then click it to expand that portion of the list.
Use the heading plus the subdivision(s), separated by “/” characters.
If a heading has no subdivisions, use the heading alone as the timezone code.

For example, to set the timezone to Abidjan, the command would be:

sysconf timezone set Africa/Abidjan

To set the timezone to Hongkong, the command would be:

sysconf time zone set Hongkong

To set the timezone to Knox, Indiana, the command would be:

sysconf timezone set America/Indiana/Knox

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America

Adak

Anchorage

Anguilla

Antigua

Araguaina

Aruba

Asuncion

Atka

Barbados

Belem

Belize

Boa_Vista

Bogota

Boise

Buenos_Aires

Cambridge_Bay

Cancun

Caracas

Catamarca

Cayenne

Cayman

Chicago

Chihuahua

Cordoba

Costa_Rica

Cuiaba

Curacao

Dawson

Dawson_Creek

Denver

Detroit

Dominica

Edmonton

Eirunepe

El_Salvador

Ensenada

Fortaleza

Fort_Wayne

Glace_Bay

Godthab

Goose_Bay

Grand_Turk

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guatemala

Guayaquil

Guyana

Halifax

Havana

Hermosillo

Indiana

Indianapolis

Knox

Marengo

Vevay

Indianapolis

Inuvik

Iqaluit

Jamaica

Jujuy

Juneau

Kentucky

Louisville

Monticello

Knox_IN

La_Paz

Lima

Los_Angeles

Louisville

Maceio

Managua

Manaus

Martinique

Mazatlan

Mendoza

Menominee

Merida

Mexico_City

Miquelon

Monterrey

Montevideo

Montreal

Montserrat

Nassau

New_York

Nipigon

Nome

Noronha

Panama

Pangnirtung

Paramaribo

Phoenix

Port-au-Prince

Porto_Acre

Port_of_Spain

Porto_Velho

Puerto_Rico

Rainy_River

Rankin_Inlet

Recife

Regina

Rio_Branco

Rosario

Santiago

Santo_Domingo

Sao_Paulo

Scoresbysund

Shiprock

St_Johns

St_Kitts

St_Lucia

St_Thomas

St_Vincent

Swift_Current

Tegucigalpa

Thule

Thunder_Bay

Tijuana

Tortola

Vancouver

Virgin

Whitehorse

Winnipeg

Yakutat

Yellowknife

CST6CDT

Cuba

EET

Egypt

Eire

EST

EST5EDT

GB-Eire

GMT

GMT0

GMT-0

GMT+0

Greenwich

Hongkong

HST

Iceland

Iran

Israel

Jamaica

Japan

Kwajalein

Libya

MET

MST

MST7MDT

Navajo

NZ-CHAT

Poland
Portugal
PRC
PST8PDT
ROC
ROK
Singapore
Turkey
UCT
Universal

UTC

WET

W-SU

Zulu

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