Ticket #331 (new enhancement)
Timezone of CKAN timestamps should be configurable
Reported by: | rgrp | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | awaiting triage | Milestone: | ckan-backlog |
Component: | ckan | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Repository: | ckan | |
Theme: | none |
Description (last modified by dread) (diff)
Revisions are timestamped using the server's clock, which may not relate to the expected timezone for the site. e.g. the Norway site has a server on GMT. No timezone info is displayed either.
Would like to set timezone for a CKAN instance to use in rendering revision timestamps. For example, use CET or EST timezone.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by dread
CKAN timestamps should not be in a timezone, since when the clock goes back, it could cause problems for vdm.
But there may be cases when CKAN is running on a machine that needs the clock set for a particular country (say for a front-end running on the same machine), and so vdm should be changed to create timestamps using UTC specifically (rather than add a timezone, since a mixture of timezones won't sort). And when we display it (or reply to a request) we convert it to the local timezone, as suggested in the description.