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Koja
Koja

Reputation: 900

UtcNow.ToLocalTime() returns UTC time instead of local time on CentOS

I have a .NET Core 2.0 application where I need to convert UTC DateTimes to local server times. This software runs both on Linux (CentOS 7) and Windows.

On Windows, the code works as expected: DateTime.UtcNow returns UTC time and DateTime.UtcNow.ToLocalTime() returns the time adjusted to current server time.

However, on CentOS, DateTime.UtcNow.ToLocalTime() returns the same UTC time instead of local time:

$"Utc: {DateTime.UtcNow}, Kind: {DateTime.UtcNow.Kind}";
$"Local: {DateTime.UtcNow.ToLocalTime()}, Kind: {DateTime.UtcNow.ToLocalTime().Kind}";

Outputs

"Utc: 07/19/2018 10:53:03, Kind: Utc"
"Local: 07/19/2018 10:53:03, Kind: Local"

While the CentOS Server time should be UTC+3:

$ date
Thu Jul 19 13:55:14 EEST 2018

Edit: DateTime.Now also returns current time as UTC instead of the local time.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1489

Answers (1)

Koja
Koja

Reputation: 900

Obviously I should have mentioned that I'm using Docker. This is apparently a Docker feature - containers don't share the host's timezones. I solved this by defining the timezone in my docker-compose.yml file:

services:
  ...:
    image: ...
    environment:
      TZ: "Europe/Helsinki"

Upvotes: 6

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