Subject: [alpine-user] PHP strftime does not seem to support %Z for timezone information

From: Tuukka Luolamo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:27:58 -0700

Executing "date" on my alpine Docker instance command line produces this for me

Thu Jun 29 08:39:28 PDT 2017

However if I execute this:

php -r "setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US'); date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); var_dump(strftime('%I:%M %p %Z', 1498568400));"

Alpine output:

'06:00 AM '

On Ubuntu I get instead:

'06:00 AM PDT'

I found this bug regarding strftime, but not sure it will address the timezone issue https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/5907

Here is my docker file contents for reference:

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FROM alpine:3.5

ENV TIMEZONE America/Los_Angeles

RUN apk update

RUN apk upgrade

RUN apk add --update tzdata

RUN cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/${TIMEZONE} /etc/localtime

RUN echo "${TIMEZONE}" > /etc/timezone

RUN apk add --update php5

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Also using Alpine 3.6 has the same problem

Am I doing something wrong or missing a package or is this a bug and if so is there a reasonable workaround?

Thanks,

Tuukka

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