All balena.io devices use the UTC timezone by default, for logs, timing, etc. This project gives an minimal example of how to set the device timezone within your application if required. It works for Debian-based systems at the moment.
To set the timezone, find the name of your timezone in the /usr/share/zoneinfo
directory (see info), or from
Wikipedia
(the TZ column), and set an environment variable called TIMEZONE with that
value, either in the Dockerfile (hardcoded) by ENV TIMEZONE <value> or a new
variable called TIMEZONE in the dashboard.
For example set TIMEZONE to Europe/London to follow the London time, or
Asia/Tokyo if you are in Tokyo, etc.
If you want to use this example in your project, add your application's own start to the marked section in the start script.
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