Purpose

Change the timezone used by Bamboo Server to one different to the system timezone, or force it to a certain timezone if for some reason it's not matching.

Solution

Firstly, if you just want to make Bamboo use the same timezone as the system timezone, it should by default. A few things to double check:

• Did you configure the timezone correctly for your Operating System? For example, Ubuntu: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdat
• Did you restart Bamboo after changing the timezone?

You can also use a JVM argument in <bamboo-install>/bin/setenv.sh to force the timezone (See Configuring your System Properties for instructions on setting this for other Operating Systems):

JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS="-Duser.timezone=Australia/Sydney"

The list of configurable timezones can be found here:

• List of tz database timezones