Nginx shows wrong time/timezone

To change the timezone you can run the following command in your instance:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and then choose your preferred timezone.

Firstly, you need to set your system timezone. You can use timedatectl list-timezones to get the names.

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Moscow

Secondly, set autoindex_localtime directive autoindex_localtime on; in nginx config file for your site, for example /etc/nginx/sites-avaliable/default. Put the directive before autoindex on;

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        root /var/www/dir;

        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name _;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        autoindex_localtime on;
        autoindex on;
}

By default, nginx outputs the directory index in UTC time. If you want it to display the time in your local timezone, you should set the autoindex_localtime directive to on.

autoindex_localtime on