Timezone env var not working and add new env var for country? about unifi-docker

[phroggster]

The time stamps reported in the web interface are controlled appropriately from the web interface (and are set from the browser time zone during initial setup). Unfortunately, the initial setup wizard only seems to take the browser's reported UTC offset into account, then attempts to map that to a time zone, which can result in an inaccurate pre-selected default. You're just going to have to select the correct time zone during initial setup, adjust it during runtime, or file a bug with Ubiquiti to inform them that the default isn't accurate in certain conditions.

However, the time stamps reported in the container logs are seemingly locked to UTC regardless of any other setting. Adding an apt-get install tzdata to the image build process yields container logging timestamps that honor the TZ environment variable appropriately. Bind-mounting /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime seemingly works on a Debian-based host, but it isn't portable. Adding additional processing to docker-entrypoint.sh to dump the TZ environment var into /etc/timezone and parse & relink /etc/localtime is another possibility, but it's way easier to just install tzdata in the image and let it convert the time stamps automatically based on TZ.

[jacobalberty]

I cant find any way to influence the wizard's defaults. I suspect (haven't been able to confirm or deny though) that it is getting that data from your web browser and not from the server environment.

[jbehrends]

Not sure if this is the same issue or not.. but I found that the timezone in the container (5.8.30) appeared to be UTC and passing the TZ variable did nothing to fix/change that. My fix was to mount in the host system's (in my cause Ubuntu) timezone/localtime files when running the container.

Example docker run options:

  -v /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro \
  -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \

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