Changing Time Zone in ESX 3.5

[larden]

I am looking to change the time zone on my hosts. I have done this in previous version 2.5 3.0 etc. and have those instructions. However it looks like /etc/localtime is now a symbolic link instead of a file. Have the instructions changed? Can anyone help with syntax to change the symbolic link?

Thanks

[Troy_Clavell]

see this KB

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1436

[larden]

Thanks, but yes I did see that, which lead to this question

This doesn't apply to 3.5.x? the localtime used to be a file, now it is a symbolic link :smileyblush: does that change the instructions?

[Troy_Clavell]

everything I can find leads me to believe this will work for 3.5 as well.

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2008/02/05/change-time-zone-on-esx-3

[larden]

I figured it out.

Almost all instructions are right - you must edit /etc/sysconfig/clock

BUT Instead of copying the file to /etc/localtime I did this to change it to denver timezone;

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver /etc/localtime

Now all is well