How to change Time zone in Virtual Dedicated Server Godaddy

You cannot change the time zone of  Virtual Dedicated Server in Godaddy hosting, But there is one exception to this, You can run a cron job to set the time zone.

i did the same by doing the following commands

first open corntab by typing

crontab -e

then add this line

0,3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45,48,51,54,57 * * * * ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta  /etc/localtime
and save crontab, This will update your time zone in every three minutes to Asia/ Calcutta.


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