Setting timezone on CentOS by admin Posted on June 16, 2014 Timezone data files are stored on: /usr/share/zoneinfo $ sudo rm /etc/localtime $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Athens /etc/localtime # # now check it's ok # $ date Wed Oct 1 12:42:33 GMT 2008 This entry was posted in Linux. Bookmark the permalink.