How to change the date of Linux to UTC/GMT +1?

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I need to change the date of my system. I'm running a Linux CentOS 5.6. How do I change the hour to be UTC/GMT +1?

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# date +%Z
UTC
# date
Thu Oct  6 11:42:45 UTC 2011

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The normal way is to set your timezone. There are a bunch of files stored by region in the following directory: Take a look and find the one which matches your region. Then you have to create a symlink from :

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