how do i change timezone using adb

Question

I want to change the timezone using adb shell command.

I went through some posts which allow changing it in linux, but they are not valid for android.

Answer 1

For the list of tzdata values I go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

To set the timezone use setprop persist.sys.timezone command:

setprop persist.sys.timezone "America/Chicago"