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  • seitz.166
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2016
    • 7
    #1

    Timezone Problem

    I am running the Zabbix 3.0 virtual appliance. I really like that it is running on Ubuntu now. However, I'm having an issue with the time zones. I've been researching this for two days and can't find a working answer.

    The hwclock and date are showing up correctly.

    appliance@zabbix:/etc/php5/apache2$ sudo hwclock
    Tue 15 Mar 2016 02:21:22 PM EDT -1.143197 seconds
    appliance@zabbix:/etc/php5/apache2$ date
    Tue Mar 15 10:21:25 EDT 2016
    appliance@zabbix:/etc/php5/apache2$ date -u
    Tue Mar 15 14:21:28 UTC 2016

    I have also changed the timezone setting in php.ini

    date.timezone = America/New_York

    I'm not sure what else to try. I read somewhere there may be a bug, due to the '/' in America/New_York commenting things out. I'm not sure if that is still an issue in 3.0.

    Any help would be appreciated. I'm at a loss.
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    • kloczek
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2006
      • 1771
      #2
      All timestams in zabbix DB are in UTC so you have wrong time.

      14:21 Eastern Time (ET) it is 18:21 UTC and such time (UTC) you should have in hwclock. First copy to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York to and setup time and copy it to hwclock. Second step is time zone in /etc/php.ini.
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        • seitz.166
          Junior Member
          • Mar 2016
          • 7
          #3
          I copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York over to /etc/localtime again. I synced the hardware clock and double checked the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file was set to date.timezone=America/New_York. I then restarted the apache2 and zabbix-server services.

          I get this when I check my times:

          appliance@zabbix:~$ sudo hwclock
          Wed 16 Mar 2016 12:46:11 PM EDT -0.973933 seconds
          appliance@zabbix:~$ sudo hwclock -u
          Wed 16 Mar 2016 12:46:32 PM EDT -0.895835 seconds
          appliance@zabbix:~$ date
          Wed Mar 16 08:46:36 EDT 2016

          However, when I go into graphs in Zabbix, they are displaying as 14:46. It's only two hours in the future now, but still incorrect. Any other ideas as to what could be causing this?

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            • seitz.166
              Junior Member
              • Mar 2016
              • 7
              #4
              I actually misread the time on the graphs. It is still displaying 6 hours in the future.

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                • seitz.166
                  Junior Member
                  • Mar 2016
                  • 7
                  #5
                  Should my hardware clock and date show as UTC instead of EDT? If so, how do I set these to UTC?

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                    • rumbLe
                      Junior Member
                      • Feb 2016
                      • 4
                      #6
                      Originally posted by seitz.166
                      I am running the Zabbix 3.0 virtual appliance. I really like that it is running on Ubuntu now. However, I'm having an issue with the time zones. I've been researching this for two days and can't find a working answer.

                      The hwclock and date are showing up correctly.

                      appliance@zabbix:/etc/php5/apache2$ sudo hwclock
                      Tue 15 Mar 2016 02:21:22 PM EDT -1.143197 seconds
                      appliance@zabbix:/etc/php5/apache2$ date
                      Tue Mar 15 10:21:25 EDT 2016
                      appliance@zabbix:/etc/php5/apache2$ date -u
                      Tue Mar 15 14:21:28 UTC 2016

                      I have also changed the timezone setting in php.ini

                      date.timezone = America/New_York

                      I'm not sure what else to try. I read somewhere there may be a bug, due to the '/' in America/New_York commenting things out. I'm not sure if that is still an issue in 3.0.

                      Any help would be appreciated. I'm at a loss.
                      Hi, did you try to change the timezone in: /etc/apache2/conf-available/zabbix.conf

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                        • seitz.166
                          Junior Member
                          • Mar 2016
                          • 7
                          #7
                          Rumble...You are awesome. That fixed the issue. I thought there might be another config file, but I didn't know where.

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                            • rumbLe
                              Junior Member
                              • Feb 2016
                              • 4
                              #8
                              Originally posted by seitz.166
                              Rumble...You are awesome. That fixed the issue. I thought there might be another config file, but I didn't know where.
                              No problem. Glad I could help.

                              I had the same problem as you, and it took me a while to find the solution.

                              https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...al/appliance?s[]

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                                • Geoclimate
                                  Junior Member
                                  • Aug 2020
                                  • 2
                                  #9
                                  Hi,
                                  Zabbix 5.0.2 virtual appliance

                                  Here's my solution

                                  1.
                                  Change time zone

                                  cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Warsaw /etc/localtime


                                  2.
                                  find file zabbix.conf

                                  find / -name zabbix.conf


                                  3.
                                  edit file zabbix.conf
                                  (in my case) /etc/php-fpm.d/zabbix.conf

                                  vi /etc/php-fpm.d/zabbix.conf

                                  find inside
                                  php_value[date.timezone] = Europe/Warsaw

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                                    • christophergatewood
                                      Junior Member
                                      • Sep 2018
                                      • 1
                                      #10
                                      Hello,

                                      I was reading this some and then there were others that are pretty old so I thought I'd ask if anyone knew if it mattered when you have proxies.

                                      We currently use Zabbix 4.0 and have proxies everywhere. I recently did a change to have the primary and backup zabbix front end and database time zone change on RHEL to central time. I never made the changes to the proxies to match up to the front ends and database operating systems.Does it matter that I would have Central, Eastern, and Pacific time zones configured on the Red Hat 7 OS that run Zabbix proxy?

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