Timezone display for Created by and Last Modified

[Kara Hart]

We are migrating to hosted AS and the timezone display in the SUI and PUI for record Created by and Last modified are showing UTC +0000 and we need to have this display in EST.  And the tech doesn't know themselves what to do to fix it.  

The magical AI bots tell me that I should look for the JAVA_OPTS line in the archivesspace.sh file and add this timezone snippet:

 

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Duser.timezone=America/New_York"

It looks like the current lines in that file for release 3.5.1 are as follow although I don't have access to the actual files now:  

export JAVA_OPTS="-Darchivesspace-daemon=yes $JAVA_OPTS -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom"

# Wow.  Not proud of this!

export JAVA_OPTS="`echo $JAVA_OPTS | sed 's/\([#&;\`|*?~<>^(){}$\,]\)/\\\\\1/g'`"

So would I advise our vendor to change it to:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Darchivesspace-daemon=yes $JAVA_OPTS -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Duser.timezone=America/New_York"

# Wow.  Not proud of this!

export JAVA_OPTS="`echo $JAVA_OPTS | sed 's/\([#&;\`|*?~<>^(){}$\,]\)/\\\\\1/g'`"

Is Duser supposed to be changed tho -Darchivesspace-daemon? and it should be: 

export JAVA_OPTS="-Darchivesspace-daemon=yes $JAVA_OPTS -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Darchivesspace-daemon.timezone=America/New_York"

# Wow.  Not proud of this!

export JAVA_OPTS="`echo $JAVA_OPTS | sed 's/\([#&;\`|*?~<>^(){}$\,]\)/\\\\\1/g'`"

I wouldn't think this would require a reindex?  

Or is this all very very wrong??

Thanks for any help, 

Kara

~~~~~ Kara S. Hart 

Systems Librarian - Library & Technology Services 

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Wellesley College

[Blake Carver]

This just came up recently and there's a JIRA

https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-2404

Looks like it was fixed like the Magical AI Bots recommended

https://groups.google.com/a/lyrasislists.org/g/Archivesspace_Users_Group/c/BWNJi9vB8Bc/m/2wSfuKwdBgAJ

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