Enhancement: Env Time_Zone on Docker Container

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I noticed the docker containers Xibo builds doesn’t have a time zone (e.g. America/New_York) that you can set via accessible environment variable.

I recommend adding env TIME_ZONE to Dockerfile. It makes debugging with log files a little easier to have a properly set time zone.

# Setup persistent environment variables
ENV CMS_DEV_MODE=false \
    XMR_HOST=xmr \
    CMS_DB_VERSION=138 \
    CMS_SERVER_NAME=localhost \
    MYSQL_HOST=mysql \
    MYSQL_USER=cms \
    MYSQL_PASSWORD=none \
    MYSQL_PORT=3306 \
    MYSQL_DATABASE=cms \
    CMS_SMTP_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com:587 \
    CMS_SMTP_USERNAME=none \
    CMS_SMTP_PASSWORD=none \
    CMS_SMTP_USE_TLS=YES \
    CMS_SMTP_USE_STARTTLS=YES \
    CMS_SMTP_REWRITE_DOMAIN=gmail.com \
    CMS_SMTP_HOSTNAME=none \
    CMS_SMTP_FROM_LINE_OVERRIDE=YES \
    CMS_ALIAS=none \
    CMS_PHP_SESSION_GC_MAXLIFETIME=1440 \
    CMS_PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=2G \
    CMS_PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=2G \
    CMS_PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=300 \
    CMS_PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=256M \
    CMS_APACHE_START_SERVERS=2 \
    CMS_APACHE_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS=5 \
    CMS_APACHE_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS=10 \
    CMS_APACHE_MAX_REQUEST_WORKERS=60 \
    CMS_APACHE_MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_CHILD=300 \
    TIME_ZONE=America/New_York 

#Set Time Zone
RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIME_ZONE /etc/localtime && echo $TIME_ZONE > /etc/timezone
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You set the timezone within Xibo CMS itself, not inside the container.

The only exception is in the MYSQL container where you can pass in the “TZ” environment variable as required. Simply add it to config.env if you want it.