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

NOTE: This refers to a linux box (debian in my instance) should be used under your AWS launch configurations "User Data".

If you're planning to set the TIMEZONE on instance boot use below (works like a charm) use you're own Country/City instead of "Australia/Sydney".

#!/bin/bash

/bin/rm -f /etc/localtime; /bin/ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney /etc/localtime