The toolbox should use the same time zone as the host

[refi64]

I spent a good hour trying to debug my C program not displaying the time correctly before I realized it worked from the host system 😅

Currently, the time zone inside the toolbox is always set to UTC, regardless of the host time. (You can see this with a file /etc/localtime.) I'm guessing the fix would be to bind the host's /etc/localtime into the container?

[debarshiray]

This is similar to the /etc/resolv.conf problem that we have.

Bind mounting /etc/localtime will work as long as the system's timezone doesn't change. If it does, then the bind mount won't get updated because it will be considered a separate inode. This wouldn't have been a problem if we could bind mount an entire directory.

Flatpak solves this by adding another level of redirection into a separate directory which is kept updated by a helper process.

[juhp]

Mounting /etc/localtime seems good enough for now?

[debarshiray]

There's some Podman work going on in containers/podman#2744 that will let us solve this properly. I think this will be solved in the short-term.

[debarshiray]

There's a work-in-progress branch in #93