Time zone and retention
Updated 2026-09-08 · Pharos 0.5.10
Under Admin → Settings → General:
- Time zone — pick any IANA zone (Europe/Amsterdam, America/New_York, Asia/Tokyo). Every timestamp on the public page, in the admin and in e-mails is shown in it. Everything is stored in UTC, so you can change the zone at any time and history does not move.
- Audit log kept for — 7 to 3650 days; older lines are pruned nightly.
- Backups kept — how many update snapshots to hold; see Updates & backups.
- Check for updates automatically — the hourly manifest check; off means the Updates screen only looks when you press the button.
Settings → Mail holds the MAIL_* connection for subscriber mail and a
Send test button; Settings → Single sign-on holds the OpenID Connect fields covered under
Users, SSO & 2FA.
