How to set time zone as per country standard

Date command output:

# date
Sun Dec  4 00:33:27 HST 2016

As seen above HST is not indian. According to India IST (Indian Standard Time) is correct.

I tried update time using ntpdate command but not updated successfully.

# ntpdate pool.ntp.org
 5 Dec 00:34:27 ntpdate[23792]: 203.123.48.219 rate limit response from server.
 5 Dec 00:34:27 ntpdate[23792]: adjust time server 210.23.18.200 offset -0.000570 sec

Time zone file location
#  ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Delete time current timezone as this is not correct

# rm /etc/localtime

Make symbolic link, according to Country standard

# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime

#  ntpdate pool.ntp.org
4 Dec 23:30:57 ntpdate[4113]: step time server 139.59.21.22 offset -18.019687 sec

# /etc/init.d/ntpd start

# chkconfig ntpd on

# date
Sun Dec  4 23:31:28 IST 2016

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