How to change the Confluence system date?

[Varsha Muzumdar]

The time shown by confluence server in system settings is ahead of my regional time zone. When I change this time-zone to my regional time under Settings->Users->ViewSettings anc change time zone to PST it still does not get updated in system settings. How can I change my system date and time-zone so that the uptime property in settings is 0?

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority · Accepted solution]

If your host is in a different timezone than your main organization, you can change the JVM parameters to specify your organization's timezone as the default.

Example of this is:

-Duser.timezone=Europe/Sofia

[Varsha Muzumdar]

In which file should I be adding this parameter?

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/setting-properties-and-options-on-startup-828788225.html

[Nguyen Tran]

When I change the timezone using this method, the editor stopped working. It shows "The editor is taking too long to load ... " message. Any idea why?

[Shai Dahan]

You probably have added the wrong line in setenv.sh file
I also came across this issue with the error message

"This page is taking longer to load than usual. Give it a few moments, then try refreshing.

when I've mistakenly added the bellow line in the file:

CATALINA_OPTS="-Duser.timezone=Europe/London"

instead of

CATALINA_OPTS="-Duser.timezone=Europe/London ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

I've tested this in our staging and production systems after correcting the line in the file and it works as expected.
Hope it helps

[Steven F Behnke]

The system time is taken from the host, isn't it? 

[Varsha Muzumdar]

It did not ask me for it while setting up confluence