Use TZUtil To Change Time Zone in Command Prompt in Windows 7

It’s pretty easy to change time zone by using Control Panel’s Date and Time applet GUI. In Windows 7, the operating system also includes a command line utility named TZUtil.exe, which allows user to change a system’s timezone by typing command in Command Prompt window.

TZUtil or Windows Time Zone Utility can be used to display current time zone ID or set the system timezone to specified time zone ID, with support to disable Daylight Saving Time adjustments (if applicable) for the time zone with _dstoff suffix.

How to Use TZUtil to Set or Display Time Zone

  1. Click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories, and click on Command Prompt, or simply type Cmd in Start Search and hit Enter.
  2. Use the following TZUtil syntax to construct the command:

    TZUTIL <? | /g | /s TimeZoneID[_dstoff] | /l>

    Parameters available is /? (displays usage information), /g (displays the current time zone ID), /s (sets the current time zone using the specified time zone ID, with the _dstoff suffix disables Daylight Saving Time adjustments for the time zone), and /l (lists all valid time zone IDs and display names).

    For example:

    TZUTIL /g
    TZUTIL /s “Pacific Standard Time”
    TZUTIL /s “Pacific Standard Time_dstoff”
    TZUTIL /s “GMT Standard Time”

    The last command will set the PC time zone to Greenwich Meridian Standard Time (GMT or UTC).

    Tip: To get a list of available time zone IDs, type TZUTIL /l.

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2 Responses to “Use TZUtil To Change Time Zone in Command Prompt in Windows 7”

  1. Damontoyam
    November 2nd, 2009 11:58
    2

    Hello how are you going? I do not know why, but since a couple of months I blocked any option to change the time zone and time zone. The only way to change it from time to time command cmd. I write any of the commands you have written above I get errors like
    “You can not enumerate the time zones.
    “Could not get the time zone identifier.
    Rather, there is no time zone information! could you help me with that? I need to TDAG Windows 7, because I really do provide much of the time, also not good to have these disfuncionalidade

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    August 10th, 2009 02:42
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