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Shashwat Kumar
Shashwat Kumar

Reputation: 5297

Change access log time zone in nginx

I am running nginx with default log format

log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

It prints the access log in following format

1.2.3.4 - - [27/Mar/2021:09:39:43 +0000] "GET /text.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 315 "-" "curl/7.55.1" "-"

However I want the logs to print time in UTC +05:30 which is not the local time of the server. I tried adding env "TZ=Asia/Kolkata"; at the top of nginx.conf but it didn't work. Please suggest how to do this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3849

Answers (2)

papierkorp
papierkorp

Reputation: 339

You can set up a volumeMount to use the same as the Hostnode:

spec:
  volumes:
    - name: date-config
      hostPath:
        path: /etc/localtime
  containers:
      volumeMounts:
        - name: date-config
          mountPath: /etc/localtime

Upvotes: 0

Bhoopesh
Bhoopesh

Reputation: 21

Regarding setting timezone in Nginx logs: Works fine; just need to set the "TZ" environment variable for nginx daemon (e.g. in the script that launches it). Or if you're using Docker, set it in the Dockerfile (or in the "environment" in docker-compose.yml file if you're using that).

Upvotes: 2

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