How to set user timezone

Support
#1

does Jmix still support the functionality to allow user to change TimeZone from Help-> Setting menu (similar to the one we have on CUBA platform)?

If yes, then how do I enable it? I couldn’t find any related documentation on Jmix website.

#4

Hi,

TimeZone for a user is autodetected by the web browser. Unfortunately, now there is no possibility to set up a timezone directly on the user. Maybe we will do it later.

#6

@subbotin, thanks for your answer.

In case I would like to develop the timezone selection myself. I believe the UI part would be easy by using the combobox component.

But from the server side, how do I set the timezone to a particular user session so that it will be used to convert all timestamp value to show up on the UI. I couldn’t find any Jmix document mentioned this.

Any idea would be much appreciated.

#7

You can do it in the login screen. Open LoginScreen.java in your project, find the login() method and add .withTimeZone() to the created AuthDetails object:

loginScreenSupport.authenticate(
        AuthDetails.of(username, password)
                .withLocale(localesField.getValue())
                .withRememberMe(rememberMeCheckBox.isChecked())
                .withTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Moscow")),
        this);
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#8

Hi,
We have created an issue to support the timezone settings on a User entity.

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#9

thanks @krivopustov. I couldn’t find it earlier because I’m using Jmix version 0.9.1 released from May.

I guess I have to upgrade to 1.0.0 to see that withTimeZone() method

@subbotin, thanks for the update. I’ll be waiting for that and in the meantime exploring the work-around I mentioned above.