ARTIFACTORY: How to change the timezone in Artifactory UI to the desired timezone

In this article, we will learn how to change the timezone in Artifactory UI to the desired timezone.

In JFrog Artifactory, the default timezone will be in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated). We can change the timezone in the Artifactory UI to our desired timezone by adding the below parameter in the system.yaml file that is present under the path 

$JFROG_HOME/artifactory/var/etc/

shared:
  extraJavaOpts: -Duser.timezone=<time-zone>

Kindly note a clean restart of Artifactory is required after making changes in the system.yaml file. We strongly recommend taking a backup of the “system.yaml” file before making changes to this file.

Below is a sample example of how to identify the change of the timezone in Artifactory UI.
A screenshot of the artifact and its last download timestamp is showing in UTC format.



Now added the property in the system.yaml file to change the Artifactory UI timezone to “Asia/Kolkata” as per the host machine.

shared:
  extraJavaOpts: -Duser.timezone=Asia/Kolkata

Then performed a clean restart of Artifactory and noticed the timezone changed to “Asia/Kolkata”

Screenshot from Artifactory UI



Note: Currently we can change the timezone only in the Artifactory UI and this doesn’t apply to log files.