TimeZone Changing problem

Date
The most basic command for seeing the time is date. If you type date at a shell prompt then the Linux system will say something like:

Wed Sep 5 19:00 BST 2005

.
It knows the time because it sets the counter.

To set the time and date with date is also easy:

date -s 'Wed Sep 5 19:00 BST 2005'

Where BST is the time zone; you can set it to EST or whatever time zone u r in