How do I change the timezone to UTC?

Question

I just installed a Ubuntu 11.10 box and I'm trying to figure out how to set the timezone to UTC. I have it set to London at the moment, but UTC doesn't appear to be an option.

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click on time indicator at top right conrner, you will get option of Time and date settings :) — Web-E, Mar 30 '12 at 15:25
I know how to change my timezone, but there doesn't appear to be a UTC setting. — Thom, Mar 30 '12 at 16:21
What exactly are you trying to do? Change the timezone in a server or a desktop version? If the desktop, are you trying to add UTC to the indicator-datetime or you want to configure the network time? Your question is a little ambiguous and would require some additional info about what you have already tried and where you tried adding UTC so we can better guide you. — jokerdino, Mar 30 '12 at 22:45

score 25 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 21 '16 at 15:06

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

then go to "Etc" or "None of the above", there to UTC, enter, you're done. It actually changes files /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime.

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answered Apr 02 '13 at 03:55

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '12 at 13:07

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Unable to find UTC or GMT in the menu, I ended up running tzselect from the command prompt. I selected 11, enter posix standard time, then entered UTC-0. This appears to have done it.

thanks for all of the help.

answered Mar 31 '12 at 13:07

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Thanks, "UTC" only was too simple, struggled a bit with this. – philant Nov 06 '13 at 15:53

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 15 '14 at 18:43

This is an ugly hack, but it appears that Iceland uses year-round UTC. So setting the time zone to Atlantic/Reykjavik should work (at least until Iceland decides to change its default time zone).

(London doesn't use year-round UTC, so that's not going to work correctly.)

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 02 '12 at 20:26

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To change the time zone for your user only on the command line; edit your ~/.bashrc file and add this to it:

export TZ=UTC

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answered Mar 30 '12 at 15:50

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Isn't that just my personal timezone? I'm trying to set the one for the server. – Thom Mar 30 '12 at 16:20

How do I change the timezone to UTC?

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