Nginx shows wrong time/timezone

Question

How to fix Nginx timezone? I've configured nginx to serve a directory but datetime of creation is one hour after my real time.

I've added to /etc/init.d/nginx

export TZ='Europe/Bratislava'

then

sudo service nginx reload
sudo service nginx restart

But it didn't help, there should be 14:19 instead of 13:19.

EDIT

Tried to change Ubuntu default timezone but the datetimes aren't changed.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 07 '18 at 13:31

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By default, nginx outputs the directory index in UTC time. If you want it to display the time in your local timezone, you should set the autoindex_localtime directive to on.

autoindex_localtime on

answered Dec 07 '18 at 13:31

gpgekko

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Note that it's not necessarily to be on `location` level, one could put it directly in `server` block on top. – The Godfather Oct 29 '19 at 13:30

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '21 at 11:19

Firstly, you need to set your system timezone. You can use timedatectl list-timezones to get the names.

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Moscow

Secondly, set autoindex_localtime directive autoindex_localtime on; in nginx config file for your site, for example /etc/nginx/sites-avaliable/default. Put the directive before autoindex on;

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        root /var/www/dir;

        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name _;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        autoindex_localtime on;
        autoindex on;
}

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '19 at 06:01

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To change the timezone you can run the following command in your instance:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and then choose your preferred timezone.

answered Feb 16 '19 at 06:01

SherylHohman

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 29 '20 at 17:26

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Also the problem can be from php.ini. If you use php, change the time zone in [Date]

answered Sep 29 '20 at 17:26

Vitalicus

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 16 '22 at 06:48

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look for /etc/init.d/ folder and open "nginx" file

$ sudo nano /etc/init.d/nginx and add TZ value for timezone

e.g export TZ = "Asia/Singapore"

answered Oct 16 '22 at 06:48

Nay Oo Kyaw

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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 01 '19 at 18:58

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check timezone of your system if require then set your own time zone then reboot . after reboot you will see correct time

answered Oct 01 '19 at 18:58

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