---
title: Time zones
category: tutorials
author:
 - keyboardan
---

The time zone by default on the server is UTC.

If you want to make it so that your shell prints out dates in localtime for you, run `tzselect`
to find the correct time zone name that you'll need to export as the `TZ` environment variable.

for example, if you're in eastern time, add something like this
`export TZ="America/Detroit"`

to your `.bashrc`