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@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ Import a checkpoint tar.gz file, which was exported by Podman. This can be used
to import a checkpointed *container* from another host.\
*IMPORTANT: This OPTION does not need a container name or ID as input argument.*
+During the import of a checkpoint file Podman will select the same container runtime
+which was used during checkpointing. This is especially important if a specific
+(non-default) container runtime was specified during container creation. Podman will
+also abort the restore if the container runtime specified during restore does
+not much the container runtime used for container creation.
+
#### **--import-previous**=*file*
Import a pre-checkpoint tar.gz file which was exported by Podman. This option
diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman-run.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman-run.1.md
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--- 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.
+
+```
+# 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**