Time of Nextcloud instance not correct

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Hi everybody,

I noticed a while back, that when synchronizing my calendar with my phone, the time of my events is always off by 2 hours.

When I tried to fix the problem, I noticed that the time under settings -> locale is off by 2 hours. Curiously, the 2 hours are the exact offset between UTC and my timezone CEST. :upside_down_face:

Now I don’t know why I have this offset, and I don’t know if its because of the system time of my host system, the time of the php instance or the database or something else all together…

I checked the time of my host system, and it seems to be correct. Now I don’t seem to find any setting in the config.php to configure the timezone. How does my Nextcloud instance know my timezone, and how can I set the correct timezone for my instance?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Nextcloud version: 15.0.5
Operating system and version: Ubuntu 16.04.06 LTS
Apache version: 2.4.39
PHP version: 7.2

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You should check if the time on your server is correctly set and how the logtimezone parameter is set in your Nextcloud configuration file.

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Sadly changing the logtimezone did not help. The time of the system is set correctly, I double checked that.

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I figured out what was wrong. It was not the timezone of the host system being off, but it was my browser reporting the wrong time. When I opened the console in the browser, and ran Date() the timezone and time I got back was wrong. Turns out Nextcloud relies on the timezone reported by the browser, which makes sense thinking about it.

If anyone else has this problem, a possible cause for your timezone in Firefox being wrong is if you have privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled in about:config.

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This is not a real solution. I am not going to turn off that feature, it protects my safety. but I am also being driven insane by the fact that the calendar and deck app is always wrong in nextcloud.

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There’s an issue on Github for this: Unable to correct time zone in Nextcloud with privacy features enabled in browser, and no way to specify a specific time zone to operate in if desired · Issue #19006 · nextcloud/server · GitHub

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@ratm113 Thank you for discovering the cause of the problem! Although, I wish I didn’t have to decrease security in Firefox to get the time working in Nextcloud.