The locale setting of the operating system is a set of environmental variables that defines the language, country, and character encoding settings (or any other special variant preferences) for the applications and shell session on a Linux system12. The locale setting usually consists of at least a language code and a country/region code, such as en_US for English (United States) or fr_FR for French (France). The locale setting also affects things such as the currency symbol, the thousands separator, the decimal point, the date and time format, the collation order, the paper size, the telephone number format, and many other values formatted in accordance with the language or region/country12. However, the timezone is not contained in the locale setting of the operating system. The timezone is a separate setting that determines the local time of the system based on the offset from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the daylight saving time (DST) rules. The timezone can be different from the country/region code in the locale setting, for example, a user can have a locale setting of en_US but a timezone of Asia/Kolkata. The timezone can be viewed and modified by using the date, timedatectl, or tzselect commands . References: 12