how do I change the default timezone?

[smilence86]

I found the default timezone is "+0000" in output log on my servers, How do I change the timezone?
example, change to: 02/Jun/2015:08:06:14 +0300
who know it? please help me, thanks~

[chk-]

I just came across the same issue.
@dougwilson wrote in issue #21 -> #13 "...all logs are in UTC because it is an absolute standard."
I don't think so and found Wikipedia - Common_Log_Format and others.
However, a workaround was also posted at #13 (new Date().toString()) But the output is not the clfdate format!
In principle there is the possibility to use a custom token for that. I show my personal solution:

morgan.token('date', function() {
    var p = new Date().toString().replace(/[A-Z]{3}\+/,'+').split(/ /);
    return( p[2]+'/'+p[1]+'/'+p[3]+':'+p[4]+' '+p[5] );
});

[dougwilson]

Yes, defining a custom token is the way to change it (which is why you can define tokens).

[smilence86]

Okay, thanks~ I have resolved.

[zhanbei]

Is the :date[clf] supposed to use server timezone like the -0700 in [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] from Wikipedia - Common_Log_Format?

It seems to be yes, which I do think should be stated in the README.md file to make it clear.

What do you think? Thanks.

[dougwilson]

All the dates from the :date token are in UTC, as stated in the README:

The current date and time in UTC. The available formats are:

The formats just present the date and time differently, but they are all in the UTC time zone as documented.