[LOG4J2-1631] RollingFile appender does not rollover file as per TimeZone specified

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.20.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wassi Sandhu
• Created: 06/Oct/16 14:42
• Updated: 04/Jan/23 05:07
• Resolved: 04/Jan/23 05:07

Description

RollingFile appender does not rollover file as per TimeZone specified. The appender roll over according to LOCAL time in spite of providing TimeZone in filePattern

Expected: The rollover should happen as per specified TimeZone

<RollingFile name="RollingFile" fileName="${baseDir}/app.log"
filePattern="${baseDir}/$${date:yyyy-MM}

{GMT}/app-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}{GMT}

.log.gz">
....
....
</RollingFile>

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: LOG4J2-3038 RollingFileAppender ignores TimeZone-Pattern
• is duplicated by: LOG4J2-3551 TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy time zone bug
• relates to: LOG4J2-1931 Wrong Date is calculated for rollover filePattern with timezone parameter
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1173