# \[SOLVED\] Does the Ignition Gateway Logs have a setting to disable converting to local time?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-does-the-ignition-gateway-logs-have-a-setting-to-disable-converting-to-local-time/62820>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [August 9, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-does-the-ignition-gateway-logs-have-a-setting-to-disable-converting-to-local-time/62820 "2022-08-09T13:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![bmeyers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bmeyers/32/37453_2.png) [@bmeyers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmeyers)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-does-the-ignition-gateway-logs-have-a-setting-to-disable-converting-to-local-time/62820/1 "2022-08-09T13:06:36Z")

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I work with customers across the continental USA in various timezones. What I have noticed is a gateway might be running on Eastern time but the gateway logs automatically get converted to my timezone.

This becomes more problematic when I setup a script to run at 9am eastern but the logs show the script running at 8am (central).

I have looked for a setting to turn this off but don’t see one. Is this a feature that might be available in future versions of Ignition?

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**Author:** ![kcollins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kcollins/32/19646_2.png) [@kcollins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcollins)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-does-the-ignition-gateway-logs-have-a-setting-to-disable-converting-to-local-time/62820/2 "2022-08-09T13:38:45Z")

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There isn’t a setting currently to override the time displayed in the logs to something other than your local TZ. However, you can use DevTools (in Chrome, presumably others) to override your location:

![Overriding Location](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/8/085196aa07383d8c95e300d55aef2a046dedf307.gif)

If you’re looking at the wrapper logs, those emit based on a combination of the Java Service Wrapper we use (see [wrapper.logfile.format](https://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/prop-logfile-format.html) for guidance on the entry in your `data/ignition.conf` file) and then the Logback configuration (see the [logback manual](https://logback.qos.ch/manual/index.html) for guidance on your `data/logback.xml`).

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**Author:** ![bmeyers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bmeyers/32/37453_2.png) [@bmeyers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bmeyers)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-does-the-ignition-gateway-logs-have-a-setting-to-disable-converting-to-local-time/62820/3 "2022-08-09T13:51:28Z")

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Thanks, I just send important messages to the gateway so I have an easily accessible historical record of events and the timezone was really making it hard to interpret the results.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/solved-does-the-ignition-gateway-logs-have-a-setting-to-disable-converting-to-local-time/62820/4 "2022-08-09T16:45:00Z")

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Shameless plug:  
You can also download the log export and open it in [Kindling](https://github.com/paul-griffith/kindling), then select a timezone. Not as immediately useful as the web interface, but a possibility.