On the 00:00 1st of March 2024, Kazakhstan changes the clocks to a single time zone UTC +5 for the whole country.  It will affect two time zones: Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qostanay, which are in UTC +6 and need to be adjusted.

And the question may arise – what to do?

As this blog is more about Virtualization, one thing to mention: there are not many problems. Most hypervisors work in the UTC +0 time zone, and the time zone should be correct inside the Guest Virtual Machines.

Many people ask: Will the NTP server move my clock back for an hour? The answer is no. NTP servers work in the UTC +0. And on the 1st of March, they won’t move your clock backward.

In this article, we will look briefly at Linux systems and how to change the time.

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