There should be a wrapper .conf file inside $SMX_HOME/etc. This is the
Tanuki wrapper configuration file.
You can add a system property to boot by adding a line like this:
wrapper.java.additional.<n>=-Duser.timezone=UTC
where <n> is substituted with a sequential number, as explained in [1].
[1]
http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/prop-java-additional-n.html
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*Raúl Kripalani*
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Integration specialist
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:43 AM, BURN, James <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> As this seems to be entwined with the Karaf wrapper component, should I
> bounce this query to the Karaf user list?
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BURN, James [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 08 September 2014 11:34
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Date format change
>
> Hmm. Not quite there yet...
>
> I added karaf.override.user.timezone=UTC to etc/system.properties and
> restarted ServiceMix but still got date in BST.
>
> This was using the wrapper to run ServiceMix as a service.
>
> When I start SM directly from the command line date is now in UTC.
>
> So I re-ran the wrapper setup feature from
> http://servicemix.apache.org/docs/5.x/users-guide/wrapper.html
>
> by removing the files wrapper created then doing karaf@root>wrapper:install
> -s AUTO_START -n KARAF -d Karaf -D "Karaf Service"
>
> but when I start the ServiceMix service from $ service KARAF-service start
> the date is still in BST.
>
> It would appear that wrapper gets and overrides the timezone from
> somewhere else.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> James
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BURN, James [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 08 September 2014 10:20
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Date format change
>
> Many thanks for the clarification Gert.
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Vanthienen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 05 September 2014 21:27
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Date format change
>
> L.S.,
>
>
> The karaf.override. prefix is used to override the default system
> properties - in this case, you're overriding the default value of the
> user.timezone Java system property. You're right that it would be good if
> we would document this feature in the system.properties file or on the
> website - I raised
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-3208 to get this addressed
> for a future Karaf release.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gert Vanthienen
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM, BURN, James <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks Lukasz. I'll have a go with that.
> > I'm rather puzzled why there isn't already a line which says
> >
> > XXX.user.timezone=BST
> >
> > anywhere at the moment though.
> >
> > James
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Łukasz Dywicki [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 04 September 2014 15:35
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Date format change
> >
> > Hey,
> > In etc/system.properties you need this option:
> >
> > karaf.override.user.timezone=UTC
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lukasz
> >
> >
> > 2014-09-04 14:11 GMT+02:00 BURN, James <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> How does one go about changing the date format in ServiceMix (I'm
> >> using 5.1.1)?
> >>
> >> I changed the system (Centos 6.5) clock from BST to UTC and want
> >> ServiceMix to work with UTC going forwards.
> >>
> >> However, ServiceMix still returns its logs in BST. I've restarted the
> >> system and and looked through the <SM>/etc setup files, but the logs
> >> are still in BST.
> >>
> >> I'm guessing ServiceMix gets the date format from the OS when
> >> initially started, but how can I change this going forwards.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >>
>
