How to change the time zone in Azure

Question

How to change the time zone in Azure

Answer 1

Hi SIRAJUDEEN, NAVRIN ,

the time zone of a VM in Azure can be set via PowerShell.

# Get available time zones by name
Get-TimeZone -ListAvailable | Where-Object ({$_.ID -like "*Europe*"})
# Copy the ID of the time zone you get by running Get-TimeZone -ListAvailable | Where-Object ({$_.ID -like "*Europe*"})
# for instance "W. Europe Standard Time" and use the follwing line to set this time zone for the Azure VM 
Set-TimeZone -Id "W. Europe Standard Time"

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Regards

Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi Sirajudeen,

I hope you are doing fine!

VM's in Azure use the UTC time standard by default. To change the time within an Azure VM it is best to change it with Powershell.

Here is the Powershell command ( I assume that you come from India):

Step 1 -> open cmd.exe (as an administrator) in your Azure VM

Step 2:

set-timezone -id "India Standard Time"

Step 3 -> That's it!

If you want to set a different country, use this Powershell command:

Step 1.1 -> get-timezone -listavailable

Step 1.2 -> Search for your country and copy and paste the ID when setting a timezone (step 2)

I hope this will help, please reply if you have any other questions!