Can't set timezone

[Voroxpete]

My container keeps crashing on startup. I'm still working on figuring out exactly why, but the first thing I noticed is that when I enable timestamps on my logs, everything comes through as UTC, not EST.

I've added the TZ=EST environment variable, and I've also tried passing through localtime from the host (which I've verified is set correctly) using /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro volume mapping. Nothing changes, I still get all my logs coming through in UTC.

Here's what I actually get in the logs if that helps:

2022-11-17T00:40:03.440088141Z Starting container with revision: b33d0fe,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.688329341Z WARNING: initial DNS resolution test failed,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.688372326Z Creating TUN device /dev/net/tun,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.688367256Z /etc/openvpn/start.sh: line 34: 11 Aborted (core dumped) nslookup ${HEALTH_CHECK_HOST:-"google.com"} > /dev/null 2>&1,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.696025546Z Using OpenVPN provider: NORDVPN,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.696172922Z Running with VPN_CONFIG_SOURCE auto,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.696192647Z Provider NORDVPN has a bundled setup script. Defaulting to internal config,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.696228842Z Executing setup script for NORDVPN,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.696937891Z INFO: OVPN: Checking curl installation,
2022-11-17T00:40:03.704934426Z thread.c:84: fatal error: pthread_create() failed: Operation not permitted

It keeps looping like this. My suspicion is that the time problem is causing the connection to Nord to fail authentication, but since I can't get the clock to fix I don't really know how to proceed. Trying to connect to the container doesn't work because it's constantly restarting. Any help would be appreciated.

[pkishino]

please post complete docker config and system details.. that looks like something more serious

[Voroxpete]

version: '3.3'
services:
transmission-openvpn:
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
volumes:
- deluge-public:/data
- transmission:/config
environment:
- OPENVPN_PROVIDER=NORDVPN
- OPENVPN_USERNAME=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- NORDVPN_COUNTRY=CA
- NORDVPN_CATEGORY=legacy_p2p
- NORDVPN_PROTOCOL=udp
- LOCAL_NETWORK=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- WEBPROXY_ENABLED=true
- WEBPROXY_PORT=8118
- TRANSMISSION_WEB_UI=combustion
- TZ=EST
logging:
driver: json-file
options:
max-size: 10m
ports:
- 9091:9091
- 8118:8118
image: haugene/transmission-openvpn
restart: unless-stopped
labels:
- "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"

volumes:
transmission:
deluge-public:
external: true

Not sure what system details you're looking for. It's a linux box running Ubuntu 20.04. It's running in a VM on a Proxmox host.

Some details:
Linux portainer 5.4.0-113-generic #127-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 18 14:30:56 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Let me know if there's anything else I can provide.

[derekcentrico]

Please change your TZ=EST to the following:
- TZ=America/New_York

[Voroxpete]

Please change your TZ=EST to the following: - TZ=America/New_York

Tried that. No difference.

[derekcentrico]

I see you're also missing this:
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

[Voroxpete]

Sorry, still no change. Exactly the same output, and the time is still UTC.

[Voroxpete]

I have also tried mapping /etc/timezone to the container as well, and that didn't make any difference either.

For the record, this is what timedatectl produces from the host:

host@portainer:~$ timedatectl
Local time: Thu 2022-11-17 18:29:47 EST
Universal time: Thu 2022-11-17 23:29:47 UTC
RTC time: Thu 2022-11-17 23:29:48
Time zone: America/Toronto (EST, -0500)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

Also, correction to an earlier statement, this host VM is on a VMware ESXi machine, not Proxmox. I got mixed up between two servers.