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Disable Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes in Linux
Update #1: Timezone database update is released recently for several operating systems under their official repositories. The version tzdata2016g includes settings for the mentioned change.
At some ...
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Linux get UTC offset from current (or other) timezones on given date and time
You can use the date command. You set the timezone and then specify the date and time. The command will return that time with the -03 or -04, so you will know if DST was in effect.
For example, for ...
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Docker container time 2 hours behind when TZ=CEST
The timezone is set by default and you need to change it manually.
There are some options:
Set it in the Dockerfile:
ENV TZ=America/Los_Angeles
RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime &...
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Disable Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes in Linux
At some point new revisions to the TZ table will be released and available for updates for all the Linux distributions. Hmm....I could have swarn that an updated timezone table had been make ...
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Docker container time 2 hours behind when TZ=CEST
After some research, it appears that CEST is not a valid value for TZ environment variable. CEST is just a displayable version of CET when the current date is summer.
In fact, if I set TZ to an ...
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