How to display local timezone for the files in the SFTP powered by Azure Storage Account

Question

We are using Azure storage account to store the files. 3rd party users access these files over SFTP. SFTP service is enabled for the storage account.

When the 3rd party users access the files over SFTP, they see those files in GMT format. The users are in the EST time zone and want it to be displayed in the EST time zone.

How do we achieve this? Please refer to the image below

Answer 1

Hi @Girish Prabhudesai , I understand you have enabled SFTP for Azure Storage Account and you want to display file timestamp in local timezone instead of GMT.

The display of file timestamp depends on your SFTP client. I managed to get the file timestamp displayed in my local timezone by adding -h (human readable) option. My SFTP client is CLI (command line interface) from PowerShell 7 on Windows 11. The command (after you connect to SFTP):

ls -alh

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