user.timezone setting in Wildfly 8.2.Final

[arnab_ghosh]

Hi All,

I am trying to change the default timezone by setting user.timezone. I am passing it during server startup using standalone.sh as below:

/wildfly/bin/standalone.sh --server-config=standalone-full.xml  -Dapp.hostname=$HOST -Duser.timezone=$TIMEZONE -P /config/aoma.properties >> /log/console.log 2>&1 &

But this is not working.

When I have adding it to standalone.conf in java_opts section, it is working as expected.

Is this is the correct behavior or I am doing any mistake ?

Regards

Arnab

[jaysensharma]

Hello Arnab,

    I have tested the same on "wildfly-8.2.1.Final" and i can see that it is working fine and the user.timezone is getting updated properly in the server log as well.   This is what i tried :

    Took a fresh "wildfly-8.2.1.Final"  and started it as following:

$ ./standalone.sh -Duser.timezone=UTC

    And i can see that server.log has the following entry:

sun.java.command = /PATH/TO/wildfly-8.2.1.Final/jboss-modules.jar -mp /PATH/TO/wildfly-8.2.1.Final/modules org.jboss.as.standalone -Djboss.home.dir=/PATH/TO/wildfly-8.2.1.Final -Djboss.server.base.dir=/PATH/TO/wildfly-8.2.1.Final/standalone -Duser.timezone=UTC
.
.
user.language = en
user.name = jsensharma
user.timezone = UTC

Regards

Jay SenSharma

[arnab_ghosh]

I am using Wildfly 8.2.0.Final. But probably the version may not be the issue. Let me test few more things and get back

[arnab_ghosh]

Jay,

The same happens for me as well. I was able to see user.timezone set correct value via the cli, but there is no effect. The log shows time in default timezone of the VM and not the timezone I have set.

/core-service=platform-mbean/type=runtime:read-attribute(name=system-properties)

But the moment I set it via the standalone.conf it takes effect. The only difference I see is in output of jinfo, the order in which the user.timezone and property appears. Not sure what is going on.

Regards

Arnab

[jaysensharma]

Hello Arnab,

    I am testing on "/wildfly-8.2.1.Final"  and i can see that when i start the WildFly as following the value of user.timezone property is getting reflected properly.

Example:

$ ./standalone.sh -Duser.timezone=UTC

Running the CLI:

[standalone@localhost:9990 /] /core-service=platform-mbean/type=runtime:read-attribute(name=system-properties)
{
    "outcome" => "success",
    "result" => {
        "[Standalone]" => "",
        "awt.toolkit" => "sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit",
        "file.encoding" => "UTF-8",
        .
        .
        .
        "user.dir" => "/PATH/TO/wildfly-8.2.1.Final/bin",
        "user.home" => "/Users/jsensharma",
        "user.language" => "en",
        "user.name" => "jsensharma",
        "user.timezone" => "UTC"
    }
}

Notice:   "user.timezone" => "UTC" in the above Output.

So please check if you are connecting to the correct WildFly instance or not?

Regards

Jay SenSharma