How do I set the time zone in Trac?

Question

I am struggling with setting up time zones with Trac. I have searched around but I have found nothing helpful. What can I do?

Both a whole site timezone or a per-user timezone settings would be helpful.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '11 at 07:22

Like indicated by others, the solution is to add this to trac.ini:

[trac]
default_timezone = ...

But the tricky thing is the formatting (see http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/9581):

you can either use GMT +xx:xx format (simple but not time saving aware)
or enter a timezone name e.g. America/Los_Angeles which requires pytz to be installed - see http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/PyTz.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 07 '15 at 22:08

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Default timezone for whole site is set up in the trac.ini:

[trac]
default_timezone = ...

In user preferences you have date time preferences («base_url»/prefs/datetime), where user can set his own (per user) timezone.

edited Apr 07 '15 at 22:08

Dave Anderson

answered Apr 07 '09 at 10:59

vartec

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 07 '09 at 14:56

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To set the site default timezone, edit trac.ini with the following syntax:

[trac]
default_timezone = GMT +10:00

or

[trac]
default_timezone = GMT -7:00

answered Aug 07 '09 at 14:56

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I recommend using format "Region/City", because this takes care of daylight saving changes. In vartex answer has the list of available options. – Simo Salminen Jul 16 '10 at 08:28

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