Curious what the timezone does?

Open professor-farnsworth opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

The readme here and for the docker container both say to specify the timezone, but I'm curious what that controls? I'm wondering because I set it to "America/Los_Angeles" and when I add a fill, the time gets recorded as the current UTC time. I thought this might be a bug or something I messed up in setting things up.... Or is this expected behavior that everything is recorded in UTC?

Thanks for the help in advance!

Oct 18 '19 04:10 professor-farnsworth

I don't think the TZ really has any effect on the app itself, but it sets up the container's internal timezone which can sometimes affect running applications which query it.

Nov 06 '19 16:11 JoshStark

Yeah, I figured it didn't do much. All the docker images from linuxserver.io include a TZ env variable, so I guess they just toss that out there for everything.

So it's expected behavior then that everything is recorded in UTC? That's fine with me, just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something.

Nov 06 '19 16:11 professor-farnsworth