Linux time zone and NTP: timedatectl, chrony, and clock sync

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Time zone

Show a list of time zones:

sudo timedatectl list-timezones

Set a time zone:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Kiev

Check if everything is set up:

sudo timedatectl

This will allow your server to stay in sync with other servers.

For NTP synchronization, we will use a service called ntp, which we can install from CentOS’s default repositories:

sudo yum install ntp

Start the service for this session:

sudo systemctl start ntpd

Enable the service so that it is automatically started each time the server boots:

sudo systemctl enable ntpd

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