# Time Configuration

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932 "2018-09-21T06:56:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![JonathanKayumbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@JonathanKayumbo](https://community.graylog.org/u/JonathanKayumbo)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932/1 "2018-09-21T06:56:30Z")

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Hi  
My graylog is running in docker, i’m experiencing different Timezone  
I have been reading about it and succeeded to change my graylog server timezone to EAT (Africa/Dar\_es\_Salaam) but User admin timezone is still running with default UTC timezone

Can you please help me out as the logs are coming in with wrong timestamp,

Thanks!

 ![graylog](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/2X/5/53f33ed690eb52d973bcffce5b215ece66a3e1db.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![hun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/hun/32/2207_2.png) [@hun](https://community.graylog.org/u/hun)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932/2 "2018-09-21T07:23:50Z")

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You can change it from `Users` under `System/Authentication` edit the `admin` user and change the time zone accordingly.

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![derPhlipsi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/derphlipsi/32/38_2.png) [@derPhlipsi](https://community.graylog.org/u/derPhlipsi)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932/3 "2018-09-21T07:29:10Z")

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Heyo @JonathanKayumbo,

the timezone of the root user is set in the Graylog configuration file.

```auto
root_timezone = UTC
        The time zone setting of the root user. See this list of valid time zones. Default is UTC.

```

@hun That would work, but it’ll be reset the next time Graylog is restarted AFAIK 🙂

Greetings,  
Philipp

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**Author:** ![JonathanKayumbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@JonathanKayumbo](https://community.graylog.org/u/JonathanKayumbo)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932/4 "2018-09-21T08:01:08Z")

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Thank you man,  
I had to create a new user with Administrator privileges and the set the time to my timezone and it worked  
How ever i could not be able to edit the Administrator timezone , seems like it needs to be edited in back-end and i do not know how!

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**Author:** ![JonathanKayumbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@JonathanKayumbo](https://community.graylog.org/u/JonathanKayumbo)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932/5 "2018-09-21T08:03:05Z")

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Do you mind if you tell me how to locate this configuration file , as my graylog is running in Docker as a container 😄

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**Author:** ![jan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jan/32/11_2.png) [@jan](https://community.graylog.org/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932/6 "2018-09-21T08:37:51Z")

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you should read the documentation on this: [http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.4/pages/installation/docker.html#settings](http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.4/pages/installation/docker.html#settings)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/time-configuration/6932/7 "2018-10-05T08:37:52Z")

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