DaanHoogland commented on a change in pull request #112: URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/112#discussion_r420576090
########## File path: source/upgrading/upgrade/_timezone.rst ########## @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + distributed with this work for additional information# + regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, + software distributed under the License is distributed on an + "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY + KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the + specific language governing permissions and limitations + under the License. + +.. sub-section included in upgrade notes. + +Time zone requirements +###################### + +As of CloudStack 4.14, you must explicitly configure time zone either in the MySQL server or JDBC driver (db.properties). +In previous CloudStack versions, UTC time zone was assumed by default (all event's have UTC time stamps), so +the same UTC time zone should now be explicitly configured. + +You can do this by editing the /etc/cloudstack/management/db.properties file and adding "serverTimezone=UTC" +to the "db.cloud.url.params=" and "db.usage.url.params=" lines. Example lines, from a clean 4.14 installation, are given below: + +.. parsed-literal:: + + db.cloud.url.params=prepStmtCacheSize=517&cachePrepStmts=true&sessionVariables=sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION'&serverTimezone=UTC + db.usage.url.params=serverTimezone=UTC + +If you want time stamps in DB to use a different time zone, please make sure to test this thoroughly in test environment. Review comment: `If you want time stamps in the DB to use a different time zone, please make sure to test this thoroughly in a test environment.` (added articles, could be `your` in both cases as well) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
