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[FEAT]: set timezone #328

Closed TasyDevilsky closed 1 month ago

TasyDevilsky commented 1 month ago

Feature Description

As a user I want to be able to set timezone, Because docker logs are in UTZ. I have set using timedatectl correct timezone, but cosmos-cloud didn't respect that in UI ... When I start container with environment variable TZ=Europe/Berlin it works correctly in this specific container when you interactively mount into it, but cosmos-cloud UI still shows logs in UTZ.

I also tried to change environment variable for cosmos-server container, but it isn't allowed.

azukaar commented 1 month ago

Simply set the timezone on your server
You can change the TZ on the Cosmos container, just not from Cosmos itself

TasyDevilsky commented 1 month ago

That's not entirely true, If you set your timezone on server using: timedatectl set-timezone "Europe/Berlin" cosmos-server container will ignore that. If you try to rewrite in /var/lib/cosmos/cosmos.docker-compose.yml environmental value to - TZ=Europe/Berlin than when you restart your server the value will dissapear, probably because docker container still using it...

So I stopped cosmos-server container, removed it, edited cosmos.docker-compose.yml with timezone, and after that started container cosmos-server again, but it will delete the timezone value again.

So now I'm unsure where to change the timezone value so that the container doesn't overwrite it again.

azukaar commented 1 month ago

cosmos-server container will ignore that.

How do you establish "ignore that"? If you are looking at other containers' logs the timestamp will still be wrong because those container have different TZ variables

If you try to rewrite in /var/lib/cosmos/cosmos.docker-compose.yml environmental value to - TZ=Europe/Berlin than when you restart your server the value will dissapear, probably because docker container still using it...

You cannot edit the container this way that's why, it's a backup it does not control the container. you cannot edit the container by editing this file

TasyDevilsky commented 1 month ago

My server have timezone set to Europe/Berlin (CEST, +0200) (by package timedatectl)

When I run container cosmos-server it's in UTC <- I checked it via docker exec -it ID_CONTAINER sh
When I start another container via cosmos I can set environmental variable -TZ=Europe/Berlin and when I exec to this specific container the date output seems to correct.
What user can see in webUI in cosmos for example Logs are in UTC. Also on another containers which have already specified environmental variable is time in UTC. That makes sense to me, because the cosmos-server container is responsible for showing the correct time.

In overall I suppose that I need to change timezone in cosmos-server to be able to show correct timezone in webUI.

So how can I correctly edit the container, or which file is responsible for that. Because backup.cosmos-compose.json aren't correct one too.

azukaar commented 1 month ago

Set the TZ to Europe/Berlin on the Cosmos container (inside the contianer it cannot read the host's TZ itself) then every app you install on the market will be given the right TZ automatically

Dont edit the backup, those are backups it's not gonna do anything.

To edit the Cosmos container simply destroy it and re-run the docker run command