From d6e49f4d09ea5698c21960dc84df4b3dc2e81f5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Asif Bacchus <asif@linuxprogramming.test.bacchus.network>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 01:32:48 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] add timezone to params, default UTC in container

---
 ab-nginx.params.template | 7 +++++++
 build/Dockerfile         | 1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ab-nginx.params.template b/ab-nginx.params.template
index 0cf8d01..3ce2c3c 100644
--- a/ab-nginx.params.template
+++ b/ab-nginx.params.template
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@
 #####
 
 
+### Timezone
+# This doesn't impact any functionality of the container, but it does make your 
+# logs easier to understand if they report the correct local time, right?
+# (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones)
+TZ=Area/Location
+
+
 ### NGINX options
 # Hostnames to which this instance of NGINX should answer:
 # By default, this is set to '_' meaning 'match anything'.  However, that won't 
diff --git a/build/Dockerfile b/build/Dockerfile
index 0c753a1..4311ec8 100644
--- a/build/Dockerfile
+++ b/build/Dockerfile
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ COPY webroot /usr/share/nginx/html/
 EXPOSE 80 443
 
 # default environment variables
+ENV TZ=Etc/UTC
 ENV SERVER_NAMES="_"
 ENV HTTP_PORT=80
 ENV HTTPS_PORT=443