Setting Ubuntu time zone
You will eventually get tired of looking at UTC timestamps in your server log files. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime has a detailed guide for setting the time zone on your server and synchronizing it’s clock. Here are the commands I used to set my time zone and synchronize my clock on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. Set time zone sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Synchronize clock sudo apt-get install ntp