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Instructions

This is useful for changing the timezone of various command line programs to better suit your local time.

Add the following line to the end of your ~/.bashrc (on servers not specifically ours, this may be ~/.bash_profile)

export TZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/<CST6CDT>"

Replacing <timezone> with your respective value from the following tables.

Africa

Africa/Abidjan Africa/Accra Africa/Addis_Ababa Africa/Algiers
Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera Africa/Bamako Africa/Bangui
Africa/Banjul Africa/Bissau Africa/Blantyre Africa/Brazzaville
Africa/Bujumbura Africa/Cairo Africa/Casablanca Africa/Ceuta
Africa/Conakry Africa/Dakar Africa/Dar_es_Salaam Africa/Djibouti
Africa/Douala Africa/El_Aaiun Africa/Freetown Africa/Gaborone
Africa/Harare Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Kampala Africa/Khartoum
Africa/Kigali Africa/Kinshasa Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville
Africa/Lome Africa/Luanda Africa/Lubumbashi Africa/Lusaka
Africa/Malabo Africa/Maputo Africa/Maseru Africa/Mbabane
Africa/Mogadishu Africa/Monrovia Africa/Nairobi Africa/Ndjamena
Africa/Niamey Africa/Nouakchott Africa/Ouagadougou Africa/Porto-Novo
Africa/Sao_Tome Africa/Timbuktu Africa/Tripoli Africa/Tunis
Africa/Windhoek

America

America/Adak America/Anchorage
America/Anguilla America/Antigua
America/Araguaina America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
America/Argentina/Catamarca America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia
America/Argentina/Cordoba America/Argentina/Jujuy
America/Argentina/La_Rioja America/Argentina/Mendoza
America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos America/Argentina/Salta
America/Argentina/San_Juan America/Argentina/San_Luis
America/Argentina/Tucuman America/Argentina/Ushuaia
America/Aruba America/Asuncion
America/Atikokan America/Atka
America/Bahia America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Barbados America/Belem
America/Belize America/Blanc-Sablon
America/Boa_Vista America/Bogota
America/Boise America/Buenos_Aires
America/Cambridge_Bay America/Campo_Grande
America/Cancun America/Caracas
America/Catamarca America/Cayenne
America/Cayman America/Chicago
America/Chihuahua America/Coral_Harbour
America/Cordoba America/Costa_Rica
America/Cuiaba America/Curacao
America/Danmarkshavn America/Dawson
America/Dawson_Creek America/Denver
America/Detroit America/Dominica
America/Edmonton America/Eirunepe
America/El_Salvador America/Ensenada
America/Fort_Wayne America/Fortaleza
America/Glace_Bay America/Godthab
America/Goose_Bay America/Grand_Turk
America/Grenada America/Guadeloupe
America/Guatemala America/Guayaquil
America/Guyana America/Halifax
America/Havana America/Hermosillo
America/Indiana/Indianapolis America/Indiana/Knox
America/Indiana/Marengo America/Indiana/Petersburg
America/Indiana/Tell_City America/Indiana/Vevay
America/Indiana/Vincennes America/Indiana/Winamac
America/Indianapolis America/Inuvik
America/Iqaluit America/Jamaica
America/Jujuy America/Juneau
America/Kentucky/Louisville America/Kentucky/Monticello
America/Knox_IN America/Kralendijk
America/La_Paz America/Lima
America/Los_Angeles America/Louisville
America/Lower_Princes America/Maceio
America/Managua America/Manaus
America/Marigot America/Martinique
America/Matamoros America/Mazatlan
America/Mendoza America/Menominee
America/Merida America/Metlakatla
America/Mexico_City America/Miquelon
America/Moncton America/Monterrey
America/Montevideo America/Montreal
America/Montserrat America/Nassau
America/New_York America/Nipigon
America/Nome America/Noronha
America/North_Dakota/Beulah America/North_Dakota/Center
America/North_Dakota/New_Salem America/Ojinaga
America/Panama America/Pangnirtung
America/Paramaribo America/Phoenix
America/Port-au-Prince America/Port_of_Spain
America/Porto_Acre America/Porto_Velho
America/Puerto_Rico America/Rainy_River
America/Rankin_Inlet America/Recife
America/Regina America/Resolute
America/Rio_Branco America/Rosario
America/Santa_Isabel America/Santarem
America/Santiago America/Santo_Domingo
America/Sao_Paulo America/Scoresbysund
America/Shiprock America/Sitka
America/St_Barthelemy America/St_Johns
America/St_Kitts America/St_Lucia
America/St_Thomas America/St_Vincent
America/Swift_Current America/Tegucigalpa
America/Thule America/Thunder_Bay
America/Tijuana America/Toronto
America/Tortola America/Vancouver
America/Virgin America/Whitehorse
America/Winnipeg America/Yakutat
America/Yellowknife

Asia

Asia/Aden Asia/Almaty Asia/Amman Asia/Anadyr
Asia/Aqtau Asia/Aqtobe Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad
Asia/Baghdad Asia/Bahrain Asia/Baku Asia/Bangkok
Asia/Beirut Asia/Bishkek Asia/Brunei Asia/Calcutta
Asia/Choibalsan Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking Asia/Colombo
Asia/Dacca Asia/Damascus Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dili
Asia/Dubai Asia/Dushanbe Asia/Gaza Asia/Harbin
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh Asia/Hong_Kong Asia/Hovd Asia/Irkutsk
Asia/Istanbul Asia/Jakarta Asia/Jayapura Asia/Jerusalem
Asia/Kabul Asia/Kamchatka Asia/Karachi Asia/Kashgar
Asia/Kathmandu Asia/Katmandu Asia/Kolkata Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur Asia/Kuching Asia/Kuwait Asia/Macao
Asia/Macau Asia/Magadan Asia/Makassar Asia/Manila
Asia/Muscat Asia/Nicosia Asia/Novokuznetsk Asia/Novosibirsk
Asia/Omsk Asia/Oral Asia/Phnom_Penh Asia/Pontianak
Asia/Pyongyang Asia/Qatar Asia/Qyzylorda Asia/Rangoon
Asia/Riyadh Asia/Saigon Asia/Sakhalin Asia/Samarkand
Asia/Seoul Asia/Shanghai Asia/Singapore Asia/Taipei
Asia/Tashkent Asia/Tbilisi Asia/Tehran Asia/Tel_Aviv
Asia/Thimbu Asia/Thimphu Asia/Tokyo Asia/Ujung_Pandang
Asia/Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulan_Bator Asia/Urumqi Asia/Vientiane
Asia/Vladivostok Asia/Yakutsk Asia/Yekaterinburg Asia/Yerevan

Atlantic

Atlantic/Azores Atlantic/Bermuda Atlantic/Canary Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Atlantic/Faeroe Atlantic/Faroe Atlantic/Jan_Mayen Atlantic/Madeira
Atlantic/Reykjavik Atlantic/South_Georgia Atlantic/St_Helena Atlantic/Stanley

Australia

Australia/ACT Australia/Adelaide Australia/Brisbane Australia/Broken_Hill
Australia/Canberra Australia/Currie Australia/Darwin Australia/Eucla
Australia/Hobart Australia/LHI Australia/Lindeman Australia/Lord_Howe
Australia/Melbourne Australia/North Australia/NSW Australia/Perth
Australia/Queensland Australia/South Australia/Sydney Australia/Tasmania
Australia/Victoria Australia/West Australia/Yancowinna

Europe

Europe/Amsterdam Europe/Andorra Europe/Athens Europe/Belfast
Europe/Belgrade Europe/Berlin Europe/Bratislava Europe/Brussels
Europe/Bucharest Europe/Budapest Europe/Chisinau Europe/Copenhagen
Europe/Dublin Europe/Gibraltar Europe/Guernsey Europe/Helsinki
Europe/Isle_of_Man Europe/Istanbul Europe/Jersey Europe/Kaliningrad
Europe/Kiev Europe/Lisbon Europe/Ljubljana Europe/London
Europe/Luxembourg Europe/Madrid Europe/Malta Europe/Mariehamn
Europe/Minsk Europe/Monaco Europe/Moscow Europe/Nicosia
Europe/Oslo Europe/Paris Europe/Podgorica Europe/Prague
Europe/Riga Europe/Rome Europe/Samara Europe/San_Marino
Europe/Sarajevo Europe/Simferopol Europe/Skopje Europe/Sofia
Europe/Stockholm Europe/Tallinn Europe/Tirane Europe/Tiraspol
Europe/Uzhgorod Europe/Vaduz Europe/Vatican Europe/Vienna
Europe/Vilnius Europe/Volgograd Europe/Warsaw Europe/Zagreb
Europe/Zaporozhye Europe/Zurich

Indian

Indian/Antananarivo Indian/Chagos Indian/Christmas Indian/Cocos
Indian/Comoro Indian/Kerguelen Indian/Mahe Indian/Maldives
Indian/Mauritius Indian/Mayotte Indian/Reunion

Pacific

Pacific/Apia Pacific/Auckland Pacific/Chatham Pacific/Chuuk
Pacific/Easter Pacific/Efate Pacific/Enderbury Pacific/Fakaofo
Pacific/Fiji Pacific/Funafuti Pacific/Galapagos Pacific/Gambier
Pacific/Guadalcanal Pacific/Guam Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston
Pacific/Kiritimati Pacific/Kosrae Pacific/Kwajalein Pacific/Majuro
Pacific/Marquesas Pacific/Midway Pacific/Nauru Pacific/Niue
Pacific/Norfolk Pacific/Noumea Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Palau
Pacific/Pitcairn Pacific/Pohnpei Pacific/Ponape Pacific/Port_Moresby
Pacific/Rarotonga Pacific/Saipan Pacific/Samoa Pacific/Tahiti
Pacific/Tarawa Pacific/Tongatapu Pacific/Truk Pacific/Wake
Pacific/Wallis Pacific/Yap

Others

A warning should be noted to anyone using GMT or UTC offset's from here, in that the labels for them are actually misleading. If you are 4 hours before (West) of GMT, then you should be using GMT+4. This is because the value you are seeing is the POSIX offset, not the common name for the timezone. User beware.

Antarctica/Casey Antarctica/Davis Antarctica/DumontDUrville Antarctica/Macquarie
Antarctica/Mawson Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/Palmer Antarctica/Rothera
Antarctica/South_Pole Antarctica/Syowa Antarctica/Vostok Arctic/Longyearbyen
Brazil/Acre Brazil/DeNoronha Brazil/East Brazil/West
Canada/Atlantic Canada/Central Canada/East-Saskatchewan Canada/Eastern
Canada/Mountain Canada/Newfoundland Canada/Pacific Canada/Saskatchewan
Canada/Yukon CET Chile/Continental Chile/EasterIsland
CST6CDT Cuba EET Egypt
Eire EST EST5EDT Etc/GMT
Etc/GMT+0 Etc/GMT+1 Etc/GMT+10 Etc/GMT+11
Etc/GMT+12 Etc/GMT+2 Etc/GMT+3 Etc/GMT+4
Etc/GMT+5 Etc/GMT+6 Etc/GMT+7 Etc/GMT+8
Etc/GMT+9 Etc/GMT-0 Etc/GMT-1 Etc/GMT-10
Etc/GMT-11 Etc/GMT-12 Etc/GMT-13 Etc/GMT-14
Etc/GMT-2 Etc/GMT-3 Etc/GMT-4 Etc/GMT-5
Etc/GMT-6 Etc/GMT-7 Etc/GMT-8 Etc/GMT-9
Etc/GMT0 Etc/Greenwich Etc/UCT Etc/Universal
Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu Factory GB
GB-Eire GMT GMT+0 GMT-0
GMT0 Greenwich Hongkong HST
Iceland Iran Israel Jamaica
Japan Kwajalein Libya MET
Mexico/BajaNorte Mexico/BajaSur Mexico/General MST
MST7MDT Navajo NZ NZ-CHAT
Poland Portugal PRC PST8PDT
ROC ROK Singapore Turkey
UCT Universal US/Alaska US/Aleutian
US/Arizona US/Central US/East-Indiana US/Eastern
US/Hawaii US/Indiana-Starke US/Michigan US/Mountain
US/Pacific US/Pacific-New US/Samoa UTC
W-SU WET Zulu