How to get the timezone in Ubuntu Linux?

If you are using a GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu the easiest way to get the timezone is by using following command: timedatectl The output should look similar to this: Local time: Tue 2018-07-24 11:27:00 CDT Universal time: Tue 2018-07-24 16:27:00 UTC RTC time: n/a Time zone: America/Mexico_City (CDT, -0500) Network time on: yes NTP…

Solving Drupal error: PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away

The problem After downloading a Drupal project I am working on, and importing its database I got this kind of message related with a PDO Exception: Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception. PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT s.lid, t.translation, s.version FROM {locales_source} s LEFT JOIN {locales_target} t ON s.lid = t.lid…

Cleaning the DNS cache

Sometimes when we are working with web projects, we have re-configure the DNS for any reason, so after that, it couldn’t be possible to connect to our page, so this is set of commands for trying to clean the DNS cache in your computer (thanks to @xmz). For Yosemite, run this command in Terminal: sudo discoveryutil…