Time zone problem

[StalkAlex]

I tried to change time zone inside a container and didn't get result that suppose to happen in vanilla alpine container. gliderlabs/docker-alpine#136 (comment)

But trying same on your image I get different result

phd root container 2406abc9ab16 /app
$ date
Thu Nov  2 04:28:10 UTC 2017
phd root container 2406abc9ab16 /app
$ apk add --no-cache tzdata
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch http://dl-3.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
(1/1) Installing tzdata (2016d-r0)
Executing busybox-1.24.2-r13.trigger
OK: 209 MiB in 83 packages
phd root container 2406abc9ab16 /app
$ date
Thu Nov  2 04:28:29 UTC 2017
phd root container 2406abc9ab16 /app
$ export TZ='Asia/Almaty'
phd root container 2406abc9ab16 /app
$ date
Thu Nov  2 04:29:39 +06>-6 2017
phd root container 2406abc9ab16 /app

Difference in this thing +06>-6. In usual alpine I get changed time but here I get same UTC time but with this thing.

[schmunk42]

Please see gliderlabs/docker-alpine#136 (comment)

[StalkAlex]

I've seen it, thanks. It means there is a bug?

[schmunk42]

We've found many little quirky things with Alpine, this is like a "perfect example".

We are building 7.2 images (without asset plugin so far), which is based on Alpine 3.6, but 7.2 is not stable yet.

7.2-fpm-5.0-alpha4-alpine-nginx
131 MB
a month ago
7.2-fpm-5.0-alpha4-nginx
327 MB
a month ago
7.2-fpm-5.0-alpha4-alpine
128 MB
a month ago
7.2-fpm-5.0-alpha4
323 MB
a month ago

If you need this, maybe it's the best option to use our Debian images (all non -alpine).

[StalkAlex]

No, it's not an option for now. Thanks.