tzupdate tzupdate is a fully automated utility to set the system time using geolocation. Internally, this geolocates you, gets the timezone for that geolocation, and then updates the system's local time zone. You can see what tzupdate would do without actually doing it by passing -p, and specify an alternative IP address by using -i. This is not an exhaustive list of options, see tzupdate --help for that. NOTE: Do not trust its results blindly. It does what it can, but determining a time zone based on an IP is inherently unreliable.