node.js log module bunyan change timezone

Question

node.js log module bunyan change timezone

I'm using this logging module bunyan.js which is included in the framwork restify.js. The module does outprint a time in the log file/console, however, I want to change the time to UTC/GMT, not sure if it's possible wihtout modifying the module code?

javascript
node.js
logging
timezone

Answer 1

If you don't want to use local time anywhere else in your process, one way to achieve what you want is to change the timezone for the process. Either by writing this statement at the startup of you application:

process.env.TZ = 'UTC'

Or by starting it with a environment variable from the command line, like this:

TZ=UTC node main.js