Virtual router timezone always set to UTC instead of local timezone

[onitake]

ISSUE TYPE

• Improvement Request

COMPONENT NAME

VR

CLOUDSTACK VERSION

4.11.3

CONFIGURATION

Local timezone: CET/CEST

OS / ENVIRONMENT

N/A

SUMMARY

The Virtual Router has its timezone set to UTC implicitly. While this provides a sane default, it's not necessarily the best choice in every environment.

In particular, when debugging issues, the UTC timestamps can make it difficult to track events across multiple systems.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

The management server would propagate its local time zone into the host config of each VR.

Alternatively, a new global time zone setting would be introduced, that is used to set the VR time zone.

EXPECTED RESULTS

Each CloudStack component has a consistent local time zone set.

ACTUAL RESULTS

The virtual router always logs events with UTC timestamps.

[DaanHoogland]

if you expect the MS local time-zone to be on every VR this is a straightforward feature to implement. I don't think this is very useful for most clouds as they span time-zones (even corporate ones do at times) this would make it a per-zone setting.

[DaanHoogland]

@onitake are you planning any implementation (for next release)?