How to change the system time zone from command line in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-08-07T07:27:35+00:00 -

Issue

How can the system timezone be changed from the command line without using system-config-date (or redhat-config-date in RHEL3)?

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