Just another opinion here, but all of our devices run off of the time zone they are physically located in. Having a per-user timezone setting would be useful for us as well. Just set the variable per user, and do the math when displaying the datetime based off of whatever time the device is reporting.

Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband http://siuslawbroadband.com 541-902-5101

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:

Nope.

It's /reasonably/ standard to run all of your management systems in a single timezone in this kind of situation, usually the timezone with the most people in it.

adam.

On 2015-02-02 10:09, Steve Costaras wrote:

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Been playing w/ observium CE 14.11.6000. We have people in several timezones, currently I have the observium system configured itself for UTC, but it would be better if there was a way to have each user account have their own 'local' timezone setting so that the graphs would show up in their local timezone.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

Thanks, Steve

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Generally I agree, and is why I set times to UTC, but since there is no real 'majority' location of users, the least amount of pain would be to have a per-user setting so that the system itself can maintain a single time value, but allow each user to follow whatever time (or random government offset thereof) that they wish.

This also comes into play when say the servers may be in one timezone, the network engineer in another timezone is looking at data to correlate to an issue with a client in a 3rd timezone location, and your managers which are in yet another.

This is /very/ common in our environment (ourselves, servers, and clients cross over 10 time zones), and to get everyone to do their own math to/from UTC every time is not using computers to the purpose they were built in which to save time for humans and focus on issues.

I would humbly suggest adding this as a feature request.

Steve

On 2015-02-02 11:21, Adam Armstrong wrote:

Nope.

It's /reasonably/ standard to run all of your management systems in a single timezone in this kind of situation, usually the timezone with the most people in it.

adam.

On 2015-02-02 10:09, Steve Costaras wrote:

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Been playing w/ observium CE 14.11.6000. We have people in several timezones, currently I have the observium system configured itself for UTC, but it would be better if there was a way to have each user account have their own 'local' timezone setting so that the graphs would show up in their local timezone.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

Thanks, Steve

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