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Hi forum
I have various guest VM's running on CentOS 7 host.
The host tz is set to local time. Clocks are correctly synced using ntp servers as usual.

I like to check the status of guest VM's using :
But this reports the status of each guest VM since datetime in UTC.
How to report the guest status using correct (local) timezone ?
How to change the time-zone setting of existing guest VM's ?
I can see VBoxManage has an option to set the guest time-zone, BUT this only applies when doing an install.
TIA's for any tips or clues.

Virtualbox does not appear to have any setting to control how the time is reported, unless there is a switch buried in the source code. (Scan the PDF of the manual for 'UTC'.)

I have done some scripting in the past related to time, and it is common for computers to report time in UTC, regardless of the source program. Web-search how to convert UTC to local time for a scripting language compatible with your host OS and how to determine your computer's time zone and daylight-savings status. Then convert Virtualbox's output through the conversion script.