When learning JIRA, how do I adjust the current date?

[Dwayne Hammond]

I want to be able to explore burn down charts and other aspects of a project as it moves ahead in time.  How do I move the current date such that everything is not identified as taking place today?

[joshloe]

Dwayne,

If you're using JIRA Server, JIRA uses the time that comes from the Java JVM, which comes from your system time.  So you could change the server time,  I wouldn't mess around with this in a live production environment.  Also, if you're browsing to your JIRA instance from another machine (not the server) there might be an issue due to the local time on your machine.

The best way I can think to test this would be to spin up a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu+GUI and install JIRA.  Then use a browser in the VM to browse JIRA and make the time changes on the server.

If you're in Cloud, it's not possible to do the tests you're looking for.

Hope this helps Dwayne!

- Josh Loe