Set containers timezones by using docker compose

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I have a docker-compose file running a few Dockerfiles to create my containers. I don't want to edit my Dockerfiles to set timezones because they could change at any time by members of my team and I have a docker-compose.override.yml file to make local environment changes. However, one of my containers (a Selenium based one) seems to not pull host time zone and that causes problems for me. Based on that I want to enforce timezones on all my containers. In my Dockerfiles right now I do

ENV TZ=America/Denver
RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone

How do I replicate the same command in docker-compose syntax?

Jul 9, 2018 in Docker by shubham
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5 answers to this question.

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Best answer
version "2"

services:
  serviceA:
    ...
    environment:
      TZ: "America/Denver"
    command: >
      sh -c "ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && 
      echo $TZ > /etc/timezone &&
      exec my-main-application"

I hope it would help.

answered Jul 9, 2018 by Atul
• 10,240 points

selected May 7, 2019 by Kalgi
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The easiest way to change the time in a Docker container is to change the time using ‘date’ command after connecting to the container.

docker exec -it container-name /bin/bash
date +%T -s "10:00:00"
answered May 7, 2019 by Atul
+1 vote

It should look something like this in the Dockerfile:

RUN apk add --no-cache tzdata
ENV TZ America/Los_Angeles
answered May 7, 2019 by Emilia
+1 vote

This should do the trick, simple and straight forward

environment:
  - TZ=America/Denver
answered May 7, 2019 by Umer
+1 vote

Share volume in docker-compose.yml. 

ipchanger:
  image: imagename
  volumes:
    - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
answered May 7, 2019 by Ekya

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