How to change system default timezone in Confluence?

[Nguyen Tran]

I'm trying to change the system default timezone for Confluence but I can't really find it in the admin menu. How do I do it

[Thomas Schlegel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

there is no option for that in the admin console of Confluence. Confluence is using the servers' timezone as default.

There is an long open issue for that: 

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-16057

Maybe you want to vote for it.

[Nguyen Tran]

Thanks. It's surprising that this can't be done via the admin console. So I only need to change my server's timezone right?

[Nguyen Tran]

Update: I tried changing the local time on my server. However the system timezone inside Confluence is not changed after I restart Confluence.

Running "date" command in my console does return the correct timezone

[Thomas Schlegel]

There is another answer here: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-change-the-Confluence-system-date/qaq-p/615405

Maybe setting the JVM parameter works for you.