topic Re: Feature Request: Docker TimeZone in #Random

Feature Request: Docker TimeZone

bstreber — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:46:05 GMT

Currently Splunk's Docker container does not support TZ or TIMEZONE options. I am able to change the TZ for a individual user but this still causes discrepancies in some log files and times. Additionally for free users who are unable to set a TZ for users this means they are stuck on UTC.

Re: Feature Request: Docker TimeZone

cloutid — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:26:45 GMT

Hi, have you tried modifying the Dockerfile and set the timezone there?

Re: Feature Request: Docker TimeZone

bstreber — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:37:12 GMT

Yeah I attempted TIMEZONE = America/Vancouver and when I enter "date" in the console it would respond with the UTC time but specify the timezone I selected.

Re: Feature Request: Docker TimeZone

cloutid — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:42:31 GMT

Here's how i did it in my dockerfile and it seems to be working:

ARG SPLUNK_VERSION

FROM splunk/splunk:${SPLUNK_VERSION}

ENV TZ=America/Toronto

USER root

RUN set -eux chown -R splunk:splunk /opt/splunk/etc/; \
chmod -R 755 /opt/splunk/etc/; \
ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone;

USER ansible

Re: Feature Request: Docker TimeZone

codebuilder — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:17:22 GMT

You'll have to rebuild the Docker image using updated TZ in the Docker Makefile.