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diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman-run.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman-run.1.md index 90c456544..e719ffffc 100644 --- a/docs/source/markdown/podman-run.1.md +++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman-run.1.md @@ -1848,6 +1848,25 @@ $ podman run --name container1 --personaity=LINUX32 fedora bash $ podman run --name container1 --rootfs /path/to/rootfs:O bash ``` +### Handling Timezones in java applications in a container. + +In order to use a timezone other than UTC when running a +Java application within a container, the `TZ` environment variable must be +set within the container. Java applications will ignore the value set with the +`--tz` option. This will be corrected in a later relase. + +``` +# Example run +podman run -ti --rm -e TZ=EST mytzimage +lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 29 Nov 3 08:51 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC +Now with default timezone: +Fri Nov 19 18:10:55 EST 2021 +Java default sees the following timezone: +2021-11-19T18:10:55.651130-05:00 +Forcing UTC: +Fri Nov 19 23:10:55 UTC 2021 +``` + ### Rootless Containers Podman runs as a non root user on most systems. This feature requires that a new enough version of **shadow-utils** |