Ubuntu Server OpenVZ timezones

[D. Strout]

The timezone of many of my VPSes running Ubuntu Server under OpenVZ seems to be set to MSK, or Moscow time. Why is this? I assume it has something to do with the most common OpenVZ template out there? I want to reconfigure the important ones (and eventually all of them), but should I reconfigure them to the timezone they are actually in, or should I set them to GMT/UTC? I'm thinking UTC for convenience: one TZ across all my servers, but what do y'all think?

 

[SeriesN]

mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Continent/City /etc/localtime

 

[D. Strout]

I assume that's how to reconfigure the TZ, which is not what I asked. I already know how to do that (I would use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata). What I'm looking for is best practice on timezone usage on servers around the world. In that vein, another option might be to set all machine's TZ to my local one. As it is, a lot of my VPSes are in the same timezone as me, so it might make it simpler for me. I also found this.

 

[NickM]

I set all of mine to UTC.

 

[Mun]

on openvz you need to do it through the CP like solus the last time I checked.

 

[D. Strout]

@Mun that does not seem right. I have never seen any such option in any SolusVM I have seen.

 

[SeriesN]

on openvz you need to do it through the CP like solus the last time I checked.

No. Date is dependent on HN node. However you can always configure timezone within your container.

@Mun that does not seem right. I have never seen any such option in any SolusVM I have seen.

 

[mikho]

When I put something of value on a vps (ie. something I will use for some time, not testing) I always change the timezone to CET. makes it easier to read logs with the same time as myself.

 

[George_Fusioned]

We set all our servers to UTC.