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How to change Local Time zone and configure NTP

If you want to set time yourself try the following command:

date 07241503

where 07 is month, 24 is date, 15 is hour and 03 is minute.

Or if you want to use NTP server, use the following command to synchronize:

ntpdate  0.centos.pool.ntp.org

If ntp server is taking wrong time because of wrong time zone, then you can easily check timezone.

service ntpd stop

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime 

ntpdate  0.centos.pool.ntp.org

service ntpd start

chkconfig ntpd on

:)

Thanks,

(The above is tested on CentOS 6.5 - Suitable for CentOS 5,6,6.x and RHEL5,6,6.x)