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Setting build worker Time Zone

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lukasz.stanczyk

29 Jun, 2015 09:44 PM

Hi.
In my build script I rely on time stamps and would like to change the time zone of the build worker.
In the init script I added

tzutil /s "Mountain Standard Time"
$env:TimestampBuildVersion = (Get-Date).ToString('yy.M.d.HHmm');

but it seemed to have no effect. Am I doing something wrong?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jun, 2015 02:31 AM

   

   Well, this worked before: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/892-change-timezone-...

   Try maybe calling it as "cmd", not "ps".

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2. 2 Posted by lukasz.stanczyk on 30 Jun, 2015 04:05 AM

   

   I do pretty much the same thing -
   here is part of my YML file:

   init:
   - cmd: tzutil /s "Mountain Standard Time"
   - ps: $env:TimestampBuildVersion = (Get-Date).ToString('yy.M.d.HHmm');

   it still did not work for me.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jun, 2015 04:17 AM

   

   I've played with that a little bit. Seems like PowerShell stores time zone in the session.

   For example this works:

   - time /t
   - tzutil /s "Mountain Standard Time"
   - time /t
   

   If you restart PowerShell console Get-Date works too.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jun, 2015 04:21 AM

   

   Found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29161929/powershell-showing-old-...

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5. 5 Posted by lukasz.stanczyk on 30 Jun, 2015 04:38 AM

   

   OK so in this case is the Init script and build script in the same powershell session?

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jun, 2015 04:47 AM

   

   Yep. Everything is one PowerShell session.

   If everything you need is getting current date time in some local zone you can do just:

   - ps: $env:TimestampBuildVersion = [TimeZoneInfo]::ConvertTimeBySystemTimeZoneId([DateTime]::UtcNow, "Mountain Standard Time").ToString('yy.M.d.HHmm')
   

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7. 7 Posted by lukasz.stanczyk on 30 Jun, 2015 06:03 PM

   

   That is the workaround I used. Thank you.

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8. lukasz.stanczyk closed this discussion on 18 Aug, 2015 05:40 PM.