topic Re: Change Timezone - Splunk free license in Getting Data In

Change Timezone - Splunk free license

TAmemiya — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:47:06 GMT

I use Splunk Free License.

For Free License, we cannot change the user settings.
I mean, I can't change the timezone in the Splunk GUI.

To change the timezone, I'm guessing i need to edit the conf file.

Please tell me how to change the timezone.

Re: Change Timezone - Splunk free license

DavidHourani — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:10:31 GMT

Hi @TAmemiya,

Here's all you need to know about what's available and what's not in Splunk Free :

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Admin/MoreaboutSplunkFree#What_is_included_with_Splunk_Free.3F

As you can see you don't have access to modify any user/role configuration:

All accesses are treated as equivalent to the admin user. There is only one role (admin), and it is not configurable. You cannot add more roles or create user accounts.

In case you purchase Splunk you can change the timezone configuration as follows :
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Data/Applytimezoneoffsetstotimestamps#Set_the_time_zone_for_a_user.27s_search_results

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
David

Re: Change Timezone - Splunk free license

TAmemiya — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:47:33 GMT

Hi @DavidHourani

Thank you for your polite explanation.
I understood that I can't change it.

Re: Change Timezone - Splunk free license

DavidHourani — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:39:39 GMT

you're most welcome, glad I could help 🙂

Re: Change Timezone - Splunk free license

freakytoad1 — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:13:49 GMT

Wanted to chime in and say you can achieve this at a system level by doing the following:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone your_time_zone

Ex)

sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

Then just restart splunk.