How to Adjust the Server TimeZone in App Platform

Posted March 16, 2021
DigitalOcean App Platform

Hie,

I have just started using the Digital Ocean App platform to quickly deploy and test our Microservices. One thing that was quickly discovered by our test users was the 2-hour difference in terms of time indicated on some of the messages sent to the customer. We are using CAT / GMT(+2) but the server time is 2 hours behind. So the question is, how do we change the DO App Platform Servers to Our TimeZone to get the correct time?

ctoMorel

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Jon Friesen • March 16, 2021

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👋 @ctoMorel

You can set the timezone with an TZ environment variable, for example: