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If you have a server hosting Jira and Confluence, what timezone do you set it to? UTC, or the timezone your users are in?
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| 1) User preference | Users can explicitly set their timezone in their profile: | Jira | Confluence |
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| 2) Default user preference | If your user preference isn't set, the default user preference will be in effect. | Jira |
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Jira conveniently lets you edit the default user timezone in General Configuration: 
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Confluence does not let you edit the default timezone ( | Jira |
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| server | Atlassian JIRA |
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| serverId | 144880e9-a353-312f-9412-ed028e8166fa |
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| key | CONFSERVER-16057 |
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). Instead you have to resort to editing XML files inside jars. |
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3) Java user.timezone | The default user timezone preference inherits its value from the Java user.timezone Java property.
You can set this user.timezone Java flag in bin/setenv.sh, e.g. to -Duser.timezone=America/Los_Angeles . |
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| 4) OS timezone | Finally, Java sets its user.timezone property default to the operating system's timezone: | Code Block |
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$ cat /etc/timezone
Australia/Sydney |
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