I’ve just updated Discourse but the dashboard says it was 6 hours ago. Something weird with timezones I assume.

I assume so. It’s a standard Linode server, and I wouldn’t have changed anything. How can I check?

If you’re running Ubuntu, here are some ideas: [usef_ksa] How can I display the current time & date setting? time, date asked by usef_ksa on 12:26PM - 22 Feb 11 UTC

This is still happening. I just upgraded. The dashboard says “4 hours ago”. admin/dashboard.json: { "updated_at":"2019-09-05T09:09:48.567Z", "version_check":{ "installed_version":"2.4.0.beta3", "installed_sha":"cd894b7d17a5d0712facb943229cdb2504818a7f", "installed_describe":"v2.4.0.beta3 +7", "git_branch":"tests-passed", "updated_at":"2019-09-05T09:09:48.981Z", "latest_version":"2.4.0.beta3", "critical_updates":false, "missing_versions_count":0, "stale_data":false } } admin/dashboard/general.json: { "updated_at":"2019-09-05T09:09:48.619Z", "discourse_updated_at":"2019-09-05T05:32:33.000+00:00", "release_notes_link":"https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature/announcements?tags=release-notes\u0026before=0" } From the server console: timedatectl Local time: Thu 2019-09-05 09:16:30 UTC Universal time: Thu 2019-09-05 09:16:30 UTC RTC time: Thu 2019-09-05 09:16:30 Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000) Network time on: yes NTP synchronized: yes RTC in local TZ: no And finally, I’m in UTC+10. I did notice that the last commit to discourse/discourse was 4 hours ago. It’s not taking that time as the time I updated is it?

You just described that the update time is the update time of the code. So yes, that’s it.

Anyone else been confused by this or just me? Not hard to change the label, but if only I got confused it’s probably not worth the trouble.

Just updated Discourse but dashboard says it was 6 hours ago

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justin (Justin DiRose) July 20, 2019, 12:29am 2

Is your server time correct? I haven’t personally looked at where Discourse pulls time data from, but lots of times apps pull it from localhost.

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Just updated Discourse but dashboard says it was 6 hours ago

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