Set default timezone in the origin container

[jorgemoralespou]

So that logs display the same way as your hosts time.

[bjartek]

What kinds of logs is the problem here and how do i access them?

[jorgemoralespou]

Any logs. If you log into a container and do time, and you do time outside the container in your host, you'll get different TimeZone, so basically when you do a build (as an example) and then you see the logs, the time you'll see is not what you would expect.

There's a way to pass env variables to the container when it starts, and I think that all we need to do is set TZ='whateverTZ_you_are', for example, in my case would be, TZ='Europe/Madrid'

With TZ set:

[jmorales@mac-santander ~] $date
Sat Oct 15 22:55:36 CEST 2016
[jmorales@mac-santander ~] $oc-cluster ssh
Going into the Origin Container
[root@moby origin]# date
Sat Oct 15 22:55:41 CEST 2016

Without TZ set:

[jmorales@mac-santander ~] $date
Sat Oct 15 22:57:12 CEST 2016
[jmorales@mac-santander ~] $oc-cluster ssh
Going into the Origin Container
[root@moby origin]# date
Sat Oct 15 20:57:17 UTC 2016

Ideally, we should get TZ from the host the cluster is running, and letting override by user if they want.

[bjartek]

If we just want the correct time when connecting to origin we could always do

docker exec -it origin /bin/bash -c "export TZ='Europe/Oslo' && /bin/bash"

We could find the tz this way. From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12521114/getting-the-canonical-time-zone-name-in-shell-script

if [ -f /etc/timezone ]; then OLSONTZ=cat /etc/timezone elif [ -h /etc/localtime ]; then OLSONTZ=readlink /etc/localtime | sed "s/\/usr\/share\/zoneinfo\///" else checksum=md5sum /etc/localtime | cut -d' ' -f1 OLSONTZ=find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | grep "^$checksum" | sed "s/.*\/usr\/share\/zoneinfo\///" | head -n 1 fi

echo $OLSONTZ

[jorgemoralespou]

Fixed