Forum Time

[Sampo2910]

Hi,

I had read that the Forum should be at the same time as the actual server.

For me that is not the case. The forum is three hours behind the server time. Anyway we can change this?

Thanks.

[PitaJ]

How do you know the forum is a different time than the server?

[Sampo2910]

@pitaj said in Forum Time:

How do you know the forum is a different time than the server?

Because the event log is 3 hours behind.

[PitaJ]

3 hours behind what?

[Sampo2910]

@pitaj

Three hours behind the actual time

[gotwf]

@sampo2910 And your server time is the actual time for your time zone? Some cloud providers automatically set vm server time to UTC. Worth double checking.

[julian]

@sampo2910 yes... How are you checking server time?

[Sampo2910]

@julian

As I just said! Am I stupid or what lol....The event time surely is telling the time of the forum?? The time that the event happened??

That is three hours behind the actual time and the actual server time!

[Sampo2910]

@gotwf said in Forum Time:

@sampo2910 And your server time is the actual time for your time zone? Some cloud providers automatically set vm server time to UTC. Worth double checking.

The server is my machine at home. It is set to the actual time where I live EEST. Any events that occur in the forum show three hours behind.

[PitaJ]

Maybe it's just that events are displayed in UTC time and you're 3 hours ahead of UTC?

[Sampo2910]

@pitaj said in Forum Time:

Maybe it's just that events are displayed in UTC time and you're 3 hours ahead of UTC?

How to change that?

[gotwf]

@sampo2910 These days it will be systemd related if on linux. I loathe systemd so eschew linux to the extent possible these days so.... good question...

Short answer:

man timedatectl

Otherwise DuckDuckGo is your friend:

[Sampo2910]

@gotwf

It is on linux. I have desktop environment also installed and I can set time there. The time is set to the actual time where I live

The events on NodeBB are 3 hours behind.

[gotwf]

@sampo2910 Your DE may only be setting time for your DE user session rather than the machine itself. Can you pull up a terminal session, su/sudo root and then drive these commands:

[email protected]:~# date 
Wed Sep 15 11:33:52 MDT 2021
[email protected]:~# date -u
Wed Sep 15 17:33:54 UTC 2021

The first should return your computer's system time while the latter returns UTC. While you are at it double check that your system time is actually correct.

Note: As a matter of course I configure my servers to use UTC for log time consistency across data centers.

[PitaJ]

I'm guessing you live somewhere in eastern Europe?

NodeBB events are logged in UTC time. There's no way to change that currently. Either get used to it, or open an issue on GitHub.

[gotwf]

@pitaj Aye, caramba!! All my stuff in on UTC so I'd not even considered such.

Be that as it may, I do believe it is convention for system logs to log system time, whatever that zone may be. Leastwise *nix side so maybe this could be considered a bug. But it is kind of a good bug cuz UTC is what ya' want to be on server side, imho.

[Sampo2910]

@pitaj said in Forum Time:

I'm guessing you live somewhere in eastern Europe?

NodeBB events are logged in UTC time. There's no way to change that currently. Either get used to it, or open an issue on GitHub.

Get used to it is not a solution. Does not matter where I live.

It should be considered as a bug as said above. Any system log should be the system time.

[PitaJ]

We log UTC time because then it doesn't matter where your server is or where you live. This isn't likely to change, but as I said, you can always ask on GitHub.