System Time and Time Displayed in JIRA are One Hour Different
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Symptoms
Server OS time displayed is one hour different from the timestamps on activities in JIRA.
Cause
Daylight savings information for your locale timezone used by JAVA is outdated.
Resolution
- Update the JDK/JRE to the latest version and restart JIRA.
- If this does not fix the problem, modify the timezone in the JVM to be as required using our Set the timezone for the Java environment KB.