How to set the time zone in Amazon EC2?

Question

I want to change the time zone set in my Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu Linux to local time?

My Question

How to change the time zone in

Answer 1

UPDATED ANSWER FOR UBUNTU 16.04:

Do:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

to update your timezone.

To list down all the available timezones you can do:

timedatectl list-timezones