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diff --git a/doc/user/workflow/timezone.md b/doc/user/workflow/timezone.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7e08c0e51ac --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user/workflow/timezone.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Changing your time zone + +The global time zone configuration parameter can be changed in `config/gitlab.yml`: +``` + # time_zone: 'UTC' +``` + +Uncomment and customize if you want to change the default time zone of GitLab application. + +To see all available time zones, run `bundle exec rake time:zones:all`. + + +## Changing time zone in omnibus installations + +GitLab defaults its time zone to UTC. It has a global timezone configuration parameter in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`. + +To update, add the time zone that best applies to your location. Here are two examples: +``` +gitlab_rails['time_zone'] = 'America/New_York' +``` +or +``` +gitlab_rails['time_zone'] = 'Europe/Brussels' +``` + +After you added this field, reconfigure and restart: +``` +gitlab-ctl reconfigure +gitlab-ctl restart +``` |