Default timezone for all RHEL6 Official AMIs is set to US East (EST), How to change it to UTC?

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Issue

  • Currently the default timezone in all regions rhel6 amis is set to US East. Why "US EAST"? UTC would be more appropriate. How can I set UTC as Default timeone.
  • By default, Red Hat AMIs in Amazon Web Services are set to EST to their timezone. Please change this to UTC.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 AMIs
  • Amazone EC2

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