Timezones w/r/t Backups

[gardinermichael]

I was messing around with our backups yesterday after mucking around with the Mattermost update to jump from MySQL to Postgres and was wondering what timezone the backup times were in.

My setting had been eastern at the time the backups were made, but I've since changed it to pacific. I assumed this would have changed the time to 6:30 p.m. (from 9:30 p.m.) but the times remained the same.

So I was wondering where that setting would be configured if not in my personal settings and what specific time the backups are taking place.

[nebulon]

The server should be in timezone UTC to have a common ground. The UI will then display this in your (browser) timezone.

[girish]

There is a server time. Settings -> Timezone. This timezone is used for cron jobs (like periodic backups).

Internally in Cloudron everything is UTC. This is an implementation detail and as a user is not relevant to you.

The UI shows timestamps in the browser's timezone.

So.. if your server is still in the eastern time, this can cause a bit confusion since it will show the timestamps in the browser in the pacific time.

[girish]

Since this question seems to come up often, I wonder if we should just show the timezone in brackets everywhere in the UI. @nebulon ?