Set timezone (now UTC set from jvm.options)

[Pixelshifter]

I would like to set my own timezone. I'm running AKHQ inside a Docker-container, in which I've volume mounted the /etc/timezone file from the host. This has a different timezone set than the default (UTC), but didn't work. Some more digging lead me to https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq/blob/dev/docker/app/jvm.options where the timezone is set within the JVM.

Without wanting to fork this project and the need to manage my internal CI/CD pipeline for this awesome tool, I was wondering if there is a way to override this timezone setting, or that we could implement an option in the application.yml to set our own timezone. Perhaps people here have found a different solution?

[tchiotludo]

Hi,

When you are talking about timezone, want date to you want to have on your timezone ?
Date display on the web ui ? Logs ? both ? others ?

Thanks

[Pixelshifter]

Thanks for the really fast reply! I see that the timestamp for messages in a given topic in the UI are 2 hours in the past which also applies to timestamps in the access_log.

EDIT: I want the timezone to be GMT+1.

[tchiotludo]

will be in the dev image in 5 minutes, help here

[Pixelshifter]

Superb!!!

[Pixelshifter]

Unfortunately this doesn't work :( Only solution thus far is to copy the existing jvm.options and set the timezone there and use that file, which gets injected as env-var (as per the README).

[tchiotludo]

Really sure ?
I've tried on my local computer and it's works !

Can you give how do you configure it ?

[Pixelshifter]

This is my docker run command:

/usr/bin/docker run -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \ -v /opt/akhq/akhq_config.yml:/app/application.yml:ro \ -e 'JAVA_OPTS=-Duser.timezone=Europe/Amsterdam' \ --name=akhq \ -p 127.0.0.1:8081:8080 private_docker_reg_url/tchiotludo/akhq:dev

Which results in this being logged (see the timestamp of journalctl (host system) vs the timestamp IN the logmessage):

Jun 19 09:07:50 localhost.localdomain docker[40419]: 2020-06-19 07:07:50,075 INFO main i.m.runtime.Micronaut Startup completed in 11559ms. Server Running: http://ec163e4fa706:8080

What DID work though was to override the whole JVM_OPTS file with my own custom jvm.options file and set the timezone there (as per your README instructions).

[arunvelsriram]

Slightly related question. Is it possible to use browser timezone in the UI, irrespective of the timezone used in the server?

[tchiotludo]

When the ui was rework in React, this part was forgotten, I reopen,
Thanks for the report

[jinooslee]

Waiting for the UI changes. :)

[Chaosmonkeys]

Any updates?