How can I create a Docker container whose timezone matches that of my local machine?

using docker run command:

-e TZ=`ls -la /etc/localtime | cut -d/ -f8-9`

Source

if you still want to use volumes you need to share /etc form the Docker UI in your MAC "Prefernces --> Resources --> FILE SHARING"

Update

for docker-compose :

under build section use:

args:  - TZ

and then:

environment:    - TZ=${TZ}

and then start it like - after re-build -:

export TZ=`ls -la /etc/localtime | cut -d/ -f8-9` && docker-compose up -d --build

you can set the time zone whatever you want in your host machine then you can map your local time to the container through volume mapping. Like this,

volumes:    - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime

For mac the location of localtime could be different. You can mount that location through volume mapping.

If it's okay to use a script to do docker-compose jobs, I think a workaround could be to set current timezone inside a shell variable, and pass it as an environment variable to containers.

The script would be:

TIMEZONE=`cat /etc/timezone`docker-compose up -d  # or whatever

And in docker-compose file, you use this variable:

web:  environment:    - TZ=${TIMEZONE}

Note: You don't need to do anything on build time to set timezone. You can pass a TZ environment variable to the container and the timezone of the container would be what you want.

P.S. I'm not familiar with Mac, so /etc/timezone would be in a different location, or maybe Mac provides this value inside a predefined environment variable itself.