Time is incorrect inside logs of NextPVR inside docker container

[janoonk]

Hi,

if I check the log files the time is incorrect. The guide is showing all programs correctly though.
I tried setting the TZ env. var. See screenshot.
And restarted the container but it doesn't work. Any ideas?

[mvallevand]

Can you map

/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

Martin

[janoonk]

Can you map

/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

Martin

I had to do a trick to map it because I use Synology Docker GUI. The GUI doesn't want you to let you link to a symlink, so I needed to create a dummy file (eg "touch localtime"), configure the GUI to point to them, then after you save your config, you can just replace the dummy file with a symlink:

Code:

ln -s /etc/localtime localtime

After restart it still didn't work. The date (and time) looks correct when I am inside my Synology but the localtime looks wrong?!
Here are in this order:
-my Synology Time settings
-Synology Docker container settings
-inside shell of Synology NAS
-inside docker container. Output is from doing:

Code:

cat /etc/localtime
date

[dsreyn]

I ran into this problem a while ago.  It sounds like you have essentially the same setup - running in Docker on a Synology NAS, using the Docker GUI.  Here's how I got it to work:

1. First, make the standard Linux time zone files available to the container (/usr/share/zoneinfo has not been included in recent NextPVR images).

a) ssh into the NAS
- Enable SSH (if not already enabled):
In the Synology GUI:  Control Panel => Terminal & SNMP => Terminal
Select "Enable SSH service"
- In a Windows "Command Prompt" window:  ssh [NAS-name]

b) Copy the time zone files from the Synology OS to a location that can be mapped to the NextPVR container:
cp -rp /usr/share/zoneinfo /volume1/docker/zoneinfo
You might need to tweak the target location (e.g., /volume1) above if your setup is different.  When you have it right, the new zoneinfo directory should be visible in the "File Station" application if you expand the "docker" entry on the left.

c) If you normally have SSH disabled, go back and uncheck the box selected in a) above.

2. In the Docker GUI, map the target location from step 1 so it's visible to the NextPVR container.

Select the NextPVR container
Edit => Volume
For "File/Folder", choose docker/zoneinfo (this assumes that you pick the "correct" target location in step 1 above)
For "Mount path", enter /usr/share/zoneinfo

3. Tell the container which time zone you want

Edit => Environment
Create a new variable called TZ
Set "Value" to your time zone; for me, this is "America/New_York"

Doug

[janoonk]

Many many thanks! Worked like a charm!!!!!