By ctoMorel
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?
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You can set the timezone with an TZ environment variable, for example:
TZ='Africa/Lagos'
Hope this helps!
This command did it for me in Ubuntu 22.10:
$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
Time zone names:
$ timedatectl list-timezones | less
Confirm:
$ timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2022-11-26 10:52:08 EST
Universal time: Sat 2022-11-26 15:52:08 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2022-11-26 15:52:08
Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500)
Log files will not show the new timezone until you restart. sudo apache2ctl restart did it for the apache logs but to get all the logs (mysql, certbot, etc):
$ reboot
For me, the issue was due to my Dockerfile, and I needed to add this:
# Add certificates and timezone data
RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates tzdata
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