Thanks Raúl That works a treat.
Cheers James -----Original Message----- From: Raul Kripalani [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 10 September 2014 12:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Date format change 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 Regards, *Raúl Kripalani* Apache Camel PMC Member & Committer | Enterprise Architect, Open Source Integration specialist http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk 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 > >> > >> >
