Time is wrong. Timezone must be changed

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I have Ubuntu 17.10. I live in Finnland so when I started the OP I choised finnish timezone.

But the time is 3 houres ahead. I have to change timezone with someting like: sudo dpkg-configure tmzone to azores (in Atlantic ocean) to get wright time.

try sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata from terminal. open a terminal with ctrl+alt+T. (sudo tzselect will view timezones if needed but the dpkg-reconfigure step will change it) — guiverc, Feb 23 '18 at 12:10
Dual-boot system with Windows? Then see this: Clock time is off on dual boot. — pomsky, Feb 23 '18 at 12:33

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '18 at 13:47

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To change time zone from terminal, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Once open, just follow the screens to change the time zone.

answered Feb 23 '18 at 13:47

neau

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HongboZhu · Answer 2 · 2019-06-13T10:57:59.863

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Did you check if your UTC is correct? It happened to me once that the UTC was incorrect (there might be various reasons). It is easy to overlook because we just assume the UTC is correct. Type:

timedatectl

And, in many institutions/companies, the NTP servers are blocked so Ubuntu cannot acquire correct UTC, further leading to problems like what you observed.

edited Jun 13 '19 at 10:57

answered Jun 13 '19 at 10:24

HongboZhu

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Time is wrong. Timezone must be changed

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