How to change the time zone in Jenkins?

Question

I wish to change the time zone of the Jenkins.

I have changed the time zone of the Jenkins installed server, but the Jenkins UI shows the different time.

I need to set the PST time for Jenkins UI. How can I do it?

Answer 1

On Jenkins2 you can set the timezone at runtime via the Groovy Console. Just open "Manage Jenkins >> Script Console" and type

System.setProperty('org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.fmt.timeZone', 'America/Los_Angeles')

for example. Particularly helpful if you have no chance to change the startup variables but have admin rights on the instance. (often found in containerized setups). Only downside: Setting is gone on restart.

Answer 2

See https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Change+time+zone. Jenkins should respect the timezone set for java. But you can force Jenkins to use a specific timezone by adding the following to start command of Jenkins:

java -Dorg.apache.commons.jelly.tags.fmt.timeZone=America/Los_Angeles

This should set your timezone to PST.

Answer 3

Login to jenkins and goto right top end and click on the user

then click on the configure and scroll down to last option "User Defined Time Zone" here you can find the different timezones.

I am using jenkins version 2.222.3.