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| author | Job van der Voort <job@gitlab.com> | 2015-05-22 07:30:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Job van der Voort <job@gitlab.com> | 2015-05-22 07:30:43 +0000 |
| commit | 906f958f897d7dcc7cfac867dff316217ea9c779 (patch) | |
| tree | 5fec0101240471956450796800d031278c37070d | |
| parent | 3a3f4b41e67485e62b2e37cc395f3407b30a7d9e (diff) | |
| parent | 1132b3e8dc2c17a1999ec7f8bc06a0d3c810c9e1 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-906f958f897d7dcc7cfac867dff316217ea9c779.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'timezones' into 'master'
Changing your time zone
Added doc and link in workflow to how to change your time zone in Gitlab.
I used the following documents as reference. Please double check that the instructions I wrote are correct.
http://www.borngeek.com/2015/02/27/setting-the-time-zone-in-gitlab/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/443
I found that several users have this same issue, that they don't know how to change their time zone:
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/5555
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/347
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/56
http://jonathonreinhart.blogspot.com/2014/10/gitlab-time-zone-issues.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5073917/why-doesnt-config-time-zone-seem-to-do-anything
See merge request !1827
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/workflow/README.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/workflow/timezone.md | 18 |
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diff --git a/doc/workflow/README.md b/doc/workflow/README.md index 7e996dc47d4..b90a6a50af9 100644 --- a/doc/workflow/README.md +++ b/doc/workflow/README.md @@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ - [Project importing from GitHub to GitLab](import_projects_from_github.md) - [Project importing from GitLab.com to your private GitLab instance](import_projects_from_gitlab_com.md) - [Protected branches](protected_branches.md) -- [Web Editor](web_editor.md) +- [Change your time zone](timezone.md) +- [Web Editor](web_editor.md)
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