RFE: Possibility to override timezone used in UI

[b0urn3]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

• UI

SUMMARY

Possibility to always present job timestamp with GMT+0 timezone. Currently jobs are presented with local timezone to logged in user.

ENVIRONMENT

• AWX version: N/A
• Ansible version: N/A
• Operating System: any
• Web Browser: any

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

• Job timestamp is for example 10:00 AM (UTC)

EXPECTED RESULTS

• European and Costa Rican users see 10:00 AM UTC.

ACTUAL RESULTS

• For user in Poland it will be 12:00 PM (CET)
• For user in Costa Rica it will be 02:00 AM (CST)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This is request from a customer.

[kfattig]

We have users in multiple timezones and this is a recurring source of confusion, especially on the job details screen. There's a critical detail not mentioned in the issue description - The output of a job (ansible output) has a fixed timezone. As mentioned in this issue the UI elements surrounding that text don't. It's confusing to see two timestamps next to each other on the screen that are not in the same timezone. Here's an example that took <1s but at first glance appears to have taken an hour:

Are there any plans to implement this at present? I understand implementing a per-user timezone setting could be a decent effort, but we would be satisfied with a single global timezone setting. This would allow us to force the UI Timezone to match that of the logs generated by Ansible.

[mabashian]

278 would probably be needed