Configure Current Time Zone

When filtering HTTPS traffic it is very important to have correct date, time and time zone settings on your Squid proxy. Dashboard in Admin UI shows current time zone and various times as detected by the application.

To set the correct time zone, navigate to Admin UI / Dashboard / Time Zone, select your timezone from drop down list and click Save Settings.

When you click Save Settings, Admin UI creates a symbolic link of /etc/localtime pointing to selected timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo folder. It also writes the timezone value into special file /opt/websafety-ui/var/console/console/timezone.setting that is loaded by Django at startup and is needed for correct display of local times in Admin UI itself, reports, policies, etc.

Important

You MUST manually restart the proxy box from terminal console after changing the timezone!

Please note it is also recommended to setup automatic time synchronization of this proxy box using for example NTP protocol.