# Changing timezone in log's timestamps

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/changing-timezone-in-logs-timestamps/4278>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [August 2, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/changing-timezone-in-logs-timestamps/4278 "2016-08-02T07:55:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Aneela\_Safdar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Aneela\_Safdar](https://community.zeek.org/u/Aneela_Safdar)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/changing-timezone-in-logs-timestamps/4278/1 "2016-08-02T07:55:52Z")

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Hi,

What settings are to do in order to change the timezone of log files?

Regards,  
Aneela Safdar

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**Author:** ![Aneela\_Safdar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Aneela\_Safdar](https://community.zeek.org/u/Aneela_Safdar)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/changing-timezone-in-logs-timestamps/4278/2 "2016-08-02T08:10:09Z")

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Hi,

What settings are to do in order to change the timezone of log files?

Regards,  
Aneela Safdar

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**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall1](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall1)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/changing-timezone-in-logs-timestamps/4278/3 "2016-08-02T14:23:56Z")

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Are you referring to the normal Bro ascii logs? If you are, those are written out in UTC (as UNIX epoch time always is)

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.Seth

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/changing-timezone-in-logs-timestamps/4278/4 "2022-05-06T15:43:54Z")

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