How to stop automatic time update in Linux

Question

Hi Guys,

I have installed Linux in a virtual box. But the time zone is not matching. It is taking a different time zone. How can I stop that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can find one command in the Linux system named timesatectl. This command controls all the time-date related task. To turn off automatic time update in your system, you can use the below command.

$ timedatectl set-ntp 0

Hope this will help you!

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Thanks.