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Usage

Use the following to set the system time on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk machine to Eastern Timezone.

Assumptions and Limitations

  • Examples on this page assume you are setting the time to Eastern Timezone.
  • Rails app logs at /var/app/current/log will show times in ET timezone.
  • AWS logs at /var/log will continue to have GMT timezone.  Since ET = GMT-5, to translate to ET, subtract 5 from the hour.

Add the ebextensions script and deploy

Add .ebextensions/change_timezone.config to your app with the following content:


commands:
  00_change_timezone:
    command: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime


On the next deploy, this will set the timezone on the AWS machine.  Executing date at the command line will show the date time in ET.


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