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Replies for: Ah, interesting, thank you. When I was using the "ENV TZ" method, my base image is FROM node:16-slim, and it worked perfectly when run date: Fri...

 
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peter279k • • Edited

The node:16-slim is based on Debian:10 image to build the Node.js version 16 environment.

And it's worked for Debian 10 when setting the ENV TZ to set the timezone.

I think setting ENV TZ is not the common way to set system timezone on every Linux distributions.

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BC •

Hmm, you are right, just tried FROM debian:10 , the ENV TZ way works. Seems just not working for ubuntu. Thank you for pointing out. TIL.

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peter279k •

If using the ENV to set TZ to set the timezone, it should have the tzdata package installed on Linux distribution Docker base image.

After investigating some common Linux distributions, the Debian and CentOS have the tzdata installed on their Base Docker images.

And Ubuntu doesn't have the tzdata package on the Docker base image.

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peter279k •

That's the reason why I need to use apt-get update and apt-get install -yq tzdata firstly on my Dockerfile when using the Ubuntu 20.04 for my Docker base image.

Of course, we can simplify my Dockerfile when using the Ubuntu to be the Docker base image:

FROM ubuntu:20.04

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -yq tzdata

ENV TZ="Asia/Taipei"
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BC •

Got it, thanks for the awesome explanation. 👍