From 8313aa6da80ff79026b310181ad0a686f0a5b117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Schweter Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:06:40 +0200 Subject: Adds new section for changing time zone in GitLab configuration file. New section added for changing time zone in Omnibus installations. --- doc/workflow/timezone.md | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/workflow/timezone.md b/doc/workflow/timezone.md index 8540ccfcabb..7e08c0e51ac 100644 --- a/doc/workflow/timezone.md +++ b/doc/workflow/timezone.md @@ -1,10 +1,22 @@ # Changing your time zone -GitLab defaults its time zone to UTC. It has a global timezone configuration parameter in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb +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' +gitlab_rails['time_zone'] = 'America/New_York' ``` or ``` @@ -15,4 +27,4 @@ After you added this field, reconfigure and restart: ``` gitlab-ctl reconfigure gitlab-ctl restart -``` \ No newline at end of file +``` -- cgit v1.2.1