What's the right way of setting a valid timezone when using plone.app.event?

Question

After installing plone.app.event v1.1 I see a bunch of warning messages on the log:

2014-04-28 16:06:11 WARNING plone.event The timezone BRT is not a valid timezone from the Olson database or pytz. Falling back to UTC.

I see there's a new control panel configlet, but I am wondering if there's another way of setting this outside of Plone. Environment variable? Buildout?

In the end, this BRT timezone information should be coming from the OS.

Answer 1

In fact the problem is just lack of documentation on the package.

The only thing you need is set up the TZ environment variable with the right value:

export TZ="Brazil/East"

Answer 2

You need to choose from one of the time zones in this list.

If by "BRT" you mean Brasilia Time, then you should use "America/Sao_Paulo".