Master teaches you how to check your time zone in Linux

In this short article, we will briefly introduce you to several simple methods to check the system time zone under Linux. Time management skills in Linux machines, especially on production servers, are an extremely important aspect of system administration.

Linux contains a variety of time management tools available, such as date or timedatectlcommands. You can use them to obtain the current system time zone, or synchronize the system time with an NTP server to automatically and more accurately manage time.

Okay, let’s look at a few different ways to check the time zone of our Linux system.

1. Let’s start by using the traditional date command

Use the following command to take a look at our current time zone:

$ date

Alternatively, you can also use the following command. The %Z format can output the time zone in character form, while %z outputs the time zone in numeric form:

$ date +”%Z %z”

Check Linux time zone

Note: The date man page contains many output formats, you can use them to replace the output of your date command:

$ man date

2. Next, you can also use the timedatectl command

When you run it without any parameters, this command can output a system time overview as shown below, including the current time zone:

$ timedatectl

You can then provide a pipe in the command and use the grep command to filter out only the time zone information as follows:

$ timedatectl | grep “Time zone”

View current Linux time zone

Similarly, we can learn how to use timedatectl to set the Linux time zone.

3. Further, display the contents of the file /etc/timezone

Use the cat tool to display the contents of the file /etc/timezone to check your time zone:

$ cat /etc/timezone

Check time zone in Linux

For RHEL/CentOS/Fedora users, here is another command that can have the same effect:

$ grep ZONE /etc/sysconfig/clock

And that's all! Don’t forget to share your thoughts about this article in the feedback box below. Important: You should learn more about system time management through this Linux time zone management guide, because it contains many easy-to-operate examples.

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