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This past Tuesday evening I presented to the RubyAZ user group. The talk covered useful libraries and gems that I saw at Rails Conf 2012 that I thought others might find helpful in their day to day work. I’ve made the presentation slides available as a pdf. Enjoy!
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I find it’s pretty annoying when you have to go log file spelunking only to find all the timestamps are in UTC. But we can set the timezone of the server so when Rails, cron, scripts, etc run, they output more readable dates.
You can check your current timezone by just running
$ date
Thu Mar 21 18:02:49 MST 2012
Thu Mar 21 18:02:49 MST 2012
Or checking the timezone file at
$ more /etc/timezone
US/Arizona
US/Arizona
So to change it just run
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
And follow on screen instructions. Easy.
Also be sure to restart cron as it won’t pick up the timezone change and will still be running on UTC.
$ /etc/init.d/cron stop
$ /etc/init.d/cron start
$ /etc/init.d/cron start
UPDATE July 2016
In the comments Dan mentions that in 16.04 you use something like:
$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone Australia/Melbourne
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