CentOS 7 was released in June 2014, along with the earlier release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Along with the introduction of the Linux kernel 3.10 in this release, there are other significant updates to the distribution.
The system locale information can be conveniently set and displayed using the localectl command:
$ localectl status
The output can be seen in the following screenshot:
Similar to the locale information, CentOS 7 includes a simple command to display and manage time and date settings on the host system: /usr/bin/timedatectl. This really is a godsend to us as administrators; even if we only use the command to display the output, this one command will display the time, timezone, and NTP settings. Take a look at the output of the timedatectl command without options in the following screenshot:
Staying with the timedatectl command, we can change the date using the following command:
# timedatectl set-time 2014-07-19
The time...