From an SSH command prompt within your VE, run the following commands while logged in as root:

1. cd /etc
2. rm -f localtime
3. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver /etc/localtime
4. date

In this example, we set the local time for the VE to Vancouver, WA, USA or Pacific Standard Time. The 'date' command shows the current time with the new timezone applied.

If you want a different time zone, simply change the first argument to the 'ln -s' command to be the correct path for the region or time zone file you wish to use. Various time zones can be found in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ or in subdirectories of that directory.

Just be sure to use the path to an actual normal file and not a directory. To see if what you want to use is a file or directory, use the 'ls -lad' command. For instance:

# ls -lad /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         3072 Dec 15 16:25 /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/

# ls -lad /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver
-rw-r--r--    2 root     root         1020 Mar  5  2003 /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver

If the first letter in the output is a "d" then the item you are examining is a directory. If the first character is a "-" then the item you are examining is a normal file.