Have the clock in a Zabbix screen show host time
In Zabbix 3.2, I am setting up a screen for a new server, and want to configure a clock that shows the local time from the monitored host.
This is how I configured the screen element:
I have checked in Latest Data that the Host localtime is being received (it is).
However, when I save this screen configuration, the display just says, "No data":
How do you display the time on the monitored host?
In order for this screen element to work, you have to use system.localtime[local] item (which returns a string in a certain format, see item documentation) instead of the default system.localtime (which returns an integer timestamp).
The system.localtime[local] item returns a string like the following:
2016-12-07,09:36:59.688,+02:00
It allows the frontend to nicely display the time zone:
