Configure a time zone for a pod - Container| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

This topic describes how to configure different time zones for pods that run on Virtual Kubelet. When you use pods to deploy applications and want your pods to specify different time zones of different locations, you can refer to this topic.

Prerequisites

Virtual Kubelet is upgraded to the latest version.

Background information

The following list describes the methods to upgrade Virtual Kubelet to the latest version for different types of Kubernetes clusters:

Serverless Kubernetes (ASK) clusters: The administrator upgrades Virtual Kubelet.
Managed Kubernetes clusters: You must upgrade Virtual Kubelet by yourself.
Dedicated Kubernetes clusters: You must upgrade Virtual Kubelet by yourself.
Self-managed Kubernetes clusters: You must upgrade Virtual Kubelet by yourself.

Procedure

Create a ConfigMap and import the time zone that you want to specify.
For other time zones, use the corresponding files in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/ directory. Example:
```
kubectl create configmap tz --from-file=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai
```

Create a YAML file to configure the time zone.

vim set-timezone.yaml

Mount the ConfigMap to the /etc/localtime/Shanghai directory. Example:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: timezone
spec:
  containers:
  - name: timezone
    image: registry-vpc.cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/eci_open/busybox:1.30
    command: [ "sleep", "10000" ]
    volumeMounts:
      - name: tz
        mountPath: /etc/localtime
        subPath: Shanghai
  volumes:
    - name: tz
      configMap:
        name: tz
  nodeSelector:
    type: virtual-kubelet
  tolerations:
  - key: virtual-kubelet.io/provider
    operator: Exists

Apply the configurations in the YAML file to the pod.
```
kubectl apply -f set-timezone.yaml
```

Verify the result

Log on to the container and check whether the time zone is configured.

Obtain the pod information.

kubectl get pod/timezone

The following example shows the returned result:

NAME         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
timezone     1/1     Running   0          7m20s

Go to the container.
```
kubectl exec timezone -it -- sh
```
Query the time zone of the container.
```
date -R
```
If the time returned corresponds to the time zone, the time zone is configured. The following example shows the returned result:
```
Fri, 01 May 2020 10:00:11 +0800
```