change time zone in Voicemail

jtshows

Is there anyway to change the time zone that the Voicemail pop/down uses? right now it is using UTC. I would like to see it in CST.

nicolas

Look at /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf for time zone settings.

jtshows

I went into the voicemail.conf file and added both tz and Timezone entreis, restarted fop2 and asterisk, and still my voice mails display in fop2 with UTC times.

Here is what I added:

Timezonename=CST6CDT
tz=CST6CDT

Am I missing something?

jtshows

an additional note. My Standard voicemail interface (http://voicemailip/recordings) does show the right timezone on all voicemails, only the voicemail interface inside of fop2 is using UTC.

nicolas

fop2 uses the origdate field stored in the msg000X.txt files in the user mailbox (/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/XXXX/INBOX). That file is generated by asterisk. Check it manually and compare to the date that you see in fop2. Is it the same or different?

jtshows

You are right. Asterisk IS storing the voicemail using UTC timezone. I will move my question to the asterisk usergroups and maybe someone can help me fix this there. Thanks for your help.

nissedotca

I have the exact same problem,

Yes asterisk write with the UTC timezone, but i think most external/internal apps convert it with your actual timezone (dynamic).

Even with voicemail.conf modification for the timezone settings, asterisk still write it in UTC timezone.

Is there a way to get a fix from FOP2? Because i don't think asterisk will move on this on.

Thanks

nicolas

Ok, I will see what can I do on the client side to convert the dates then. Do you think that I should be using the desktop machine timezone settings? Or try to use the server time zone setting?

nissedotca

I would suggest desktop machine timezone.

If i travel, the timezone will show the local time, wich is good.

nicolas

Thanks! I have already implemented it in "trunk" . The feature will be available in the next release, due out shortly, just ironing out some last bugs.