Minikube: how to change vm time zone

[du2016]

how to change vm time zone,when the vm start,it set the same time to my local,but not my local timezone

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[alejandrodnm]

I'm having the same problem, it's happening with the vmware driver. The timezone it's set to UTC but the time is my localtime, @du2016 did you manage to fix it? When using virtualbox it works fine.

I changed the date manually but that's more like a workaround than a solution.

I also reported the issue here https://github.com/machine-drivers/docker-machine-driver-vmware/issues/17

[du2016]

@alejandrodnm i have change source code: copy timezone file to localtime before vm start, then build myself

[efengx]

I also encountered the same problem, if using minikube in different countries how to ensure that the hyperkit uses the specified time zone

[alejandrodnm]

I ended up with this, that I found in some other issue

$ alias minikube-date
minikube-date='DSTR=$(date -u); minikube ssh "sudo date --set=\"$DSTR\""'

[balopat]

I just ran into this as well on MacOS + hyperkit - this can cause issues with docker builds against minikube's docker daemon, e.g. from skaffold:
"E: Release file for http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 1h 54min 32s). Updates for this repository will not be applied."

I can confirm that @alejandrodnm's fix works!

[tstromberg]

@balopat I believe your issue is actually #4264 - not timezone related, but system clock related (fixed at . head)

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[tstromberg]

The VM time zone is UTC. If you really really want to change it to your local time zone, run this on your host:

mkdir -p ~/.minikube/files/etc
cp /etc/localtime  ~/.minikube/files/etc

Every subsequent run of minikube start will override the timezone with what you have specified in ~/.config/minikube/files/etc/localtime.