You can check your current timezone by just running $ date Thu Mar 21 18:02:49 MST 2012 Or checking the timezone file at $ more /etc/timezone US/Arizona So to change it just run $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata And follow on screen instructions. Easy. Also be sure to restart cron as it won’t pick up the timezone change and will still be running on UTC. $ /etc/init.d/cron stop $ /etc/init.d/cron start