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Changing the Time Zone on Your Virtual Server
Connect to your Virtual Server via Telnet or SSH and follow the directions below.

USA Time Zones
To change the time zone on your Virtual Server to the USA Pacific Standard Time zone (for example), issue the following commands according to your Virtual Server O/S:

FreeBSD
% chmod 600 ~/etc/localtime
% cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles ~/etc/localtime

BSD/OS
% chmod 600 ~/etc/localtime
% cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/US/Pacific ~/etc/localtime

Here is a list of available USA time zones (substitute one of these for America/Los_Angeles or Pacific above):

FreeBSD
America/New_York Eastern Time America/Detroit Eastern Time -
Michigan - most locations America/Louisville Eastern Time - Louisville,
Kentucky America/Indianapolis Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - most locations
America/Indiana/Marengo Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Crawford County
America/Indiana/Knox Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Starke County
America/Indiana/Vevay Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Switzerland County
America/Chicago Central Time America/Menominee Central Time - Michigan -
Wisconsin border America/Denver Mountain Time America/Boise Mountain Time -
south Idaho east Oregon America/Shiprock Mountain Time - Navajo America/Phoenix
Mountain Standard Time - Arizona America/Los_Angeles Pacific Time
America/Anchorage Alaska Time America/Juneau Alaska Time - Alaska panhandle
America/Yakutat Alaska Time - Alaska panhandle neck America/Nome Alaska Time -
west Alaska America/Adak Aleutian Islands Pacific/Honolulu Hawaii 
BSD/OS Alaska, Central, Hawaii, Mountain, Aleutian,
East-Indiana, Indiana-Starke, Pacific, Arizona, Eastern, Michigan, Samoa
 

European Time Zones
To change the time zone on your Virtual Server to the Greenwich Mean Time zone (for example), issue the following commands according to your Virtual Server O/S:

FreeBSD
% chmod 600 ~/etc/localtime
% cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London ~/etc/localtime

BSD/OS
% chmod 600 ~/etc/localtime
% cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/London ~/etc/localtime

Here is a list of possible European time zones (substitute one of these for London above):

FreeBSD
Amsterdam, Andorra, Athens, Belfast, Belgrade, Berlin,
Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Chisinau, Copenhagen, Dublin,
Gibraltar, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kaliningrad, Kiev, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London,
Luxembourg, Madrid, Malta, Minsk, Monaco, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Riga,
Rome, Samara, San_Marino, Sarajevo, Simferopol, Skopje, Sofia, Stockholm,
Tallinn, Tirane, Vaduz, Vatican, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich
 BSD/OS Amsterdam, Andorra, Athens, Belfast,
Belgrade, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Chisinau,
Copenhagen, Dublin, Gibraltar, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kiev, Kuybyshev, Lisbon,
Ljubljana, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Malta, Minsk, Monaco, Moscow, Oslo,
Paris, Prague, Riga, Rome, Sarajevo, Simferopol, Skopje, Sofia, Stockholm,
Tallinn, Tirane, Vaduz, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich 

Other Time Zones
There are many more time zones in these directories:

FreeBSD
/usr/share/zoneinfo

BSD/OS
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix

Did It Work?
To make sure you set the time zone correctly on your Virtual Server do the following:

% virtual date

Now, restart your Virtual Server web server so that it will use the new time zone you have set:

% restart_apache

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