Fail to set EEST timezone

Question

I have a server which is set to EEST timezone (East European Summer Time). I'm trying to configure another server to this timezone, but I fail to find appropriate timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Reinstall tzdata

ubuntu - apt-get install --reinstall tzdata

Centos - yum install tzdata

List of timezones

Answer 2

Typically you set the correct time zone for a region/city and that will subsequently set your local time to the correct summer resp. winter time offset on the correct dates. AFAIK EEST is not a valid time zone name. Use the one of the cities in the countries that observe EEST such as Helsinki or Tallinn

Change the timezone with the systemd utility timedatectl

To list all available time zones:

timedatectl list-timezones

To actually change the time zone, (as root or using sudo):

timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Helsinki