Goaccess: add support to timezone

[flyisland]

right now, we have to use "%^" to ignore the timezone like "+0800". but it'll be confused while the web server used UTC format for the request time.

[allinurl]

Thanks for suggesting this. Can you please elaborate a bit more how the timezone should be displayed in goaccess and the use case you have in mind?

[flyisland]

my suggestion:

1. goaccess uses UTC internally
2. provide timezone setting in UI

[allinurl]

I'm not sure I follow. Are you looking to convert the given log time to a specific timezone? which panel would be affected with this change? Right now goaccess simply uses/displays the date and time that the access log has on it.

[flyisland]

"08/Aug/2016:16:49:16 +0800" and "08/Aug/2016:08:49:16 +0000" actually are the same time, but will be different in goaccess since goaccess will simply ignore the timezone field.

I sometimes have to use goaccess to analyze the performance of websites which with different datetime format setting, ignoring the timezone will be confused in some situation.

[allinurl]

Got it. I'll look into this. Thanks for the reply!

[ray-moncada]

How do I set the timezone when creating an HTML report?

[allinurl]

@ray-moncada are you asking about the last updated time zone? or for each metric? If the latter, then it uses the tz from your access log.

[ray-moncada]

@allinurl This is my scenario. The server time is +0000, my local is time is -0500. When goaccess static report is generated, is there a way to have the report show my local time zone?

[iskandarsaleh]

hi, @allinurl
would you mind that i have example log like this :
2020/07/20 14:53:27.396 [I] [inquiry.go:47] Request Inquiry QRIS: {"dataQr":"https://support.lenovo.com/qrcode?sn=PF11UNLP&mtm=80XK0052ID","issuer":"JATxxx","custAccount":"0812xxx"}

how can i setting this kind of log to view on goaccess

for now i get error : goaccess: unrecognized option '--3'

thanks before

regards

[allinurl]

@iskandarsaleh seems like there's no valid IP. goaccess requires a valid IPv4/6, a request and date/time.