Setting the time zone
When using FileRun with a webhosting service, sometimes the server is located in a different time zone than you and your users. You can adjust the time difference by either configuring PHP with a different timezone, or configuring just the FileRun installation to use your time zone.
For configuring PHP, please see this page for information on what to
change in your php.ini file:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone
You can also configure just FileRun rather than PHP, by adding the following line inside the custom configuration file:
1date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Tokyo");
Replace Asia/Tokyo with your desired location. You can find here a
list of available timezone codes for various locations on the planet:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
If you want to change also the date/time formats used in the interface, these can be changed by editing the language translation files (See Translating_FileRun).
To make sure your timezone is set correctly, simply upload a file or
create a new folder and look at the item's Created hour.
Setting the database time zone
Although the filesystem operations now show the correct time, database-related information, such as file comments, or user activity logs can show a different time, if the MySQL database is configured with a different time zone.
Change the MySQL server's timezone: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/time-zone-support.html
Via Docker
You can adjust the timezone for both the FileRun and the MySQL/MariaDB containers easily, by adding an environmental
variable TZ.
Example snippet when launching FileRun via Docker Compose:
1 db:
2 image: mariadb:12.2
3 environment:
4 TZ: 'America/Los_Angeles'
5 web:
6 image: filerun/filerun
7 environment:
8 TZ: 'America/Los_Angeles'