Unable to set the correct time in Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions
ID: 74
Category: Ubuntu
Added: 17th of March 2016
Updated On: Tutorial updated and rechecked on 30th of September 2021
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Recently ran in to a problem using Ubuntu Gnome where the time kept going back -5 hours of GMT.
Even after setting the time through the control panel and rebooting the system, it was still showing the incorrect time.
To rectify this problem, I installed the tzdata package by entering the following command in terminal
sudo apt-get install tzdata
After the package installed, I then ran the following command and was able to set the correct time via the terminal
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
