Time zone within the container

[Ernst2020]

I noticed that the container uses UTC and for me is in an incorrect timezone. As a result times in the probes log are two hours off.

There is no file TZ in /etc.

Can I adjust the timezone by creating a TZ file or would that screw up the measurement data reported by the probe?

[jimaek]

That's a good question. Do we rely on the time/data of the probes in any way? @MartinKolarik @alexey-yarmosh
I believe no, so it should be safe for a user to overwrite it, right?

[alexey-yarmosh]

There are no direct usages of probe's date. So it should be ok to update the timezone. I'll check that on my probe and get back here.

[Ernst2020]

Ah, it is not so easy to change the timezone, tzselect is present within the container but its result needs to be added to /root/.profile, but no editor is present. And ofcourse to make it permanent the docker image itself needs to be changed and saved.

Perhaps it is an idea for a future update to the container to automatically adjust the timezone from the geolocation data when the container starts?

[alexey-yarmosh]

Sources of timezone data might be different, but generally it is a good idea to adjust time to the user's one in the probe logs.