On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 04:14 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> docker run -ti -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro fedora bash One problem with this (and in general, any host <-> container binds) is that one needs to consider format versioning. Right now glibc is on its second version of the timezone database format. For reasons I forget now, for example we parse it in glib: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/gtimezone.c?id=1ef807445c3c2f1b03cfd5beea8d58a74ba96ef1#n453 And obviously glibc does - so we could get into a situation where if the host revs more quickly than the container (as is a primary use case particularly for Atomic Host), then containers suddenly fail to set timezones after a host upgrade. Long term, I think we'll need an architecture where the container talks to the host via APIs - so in this case the host would provide the container with a version of the timezone database that it understands.
