Is it possible change date in docker container?

Question

I have a container with a running program inside tomcat. I need to change date only in this container and test my program behaviour. I have time sensitive logic, and sometim

Answer 1

I was having the same problem with my jenkins docker instance following steps fixed my problem

1. exec into container

   docker exec -it 9d41c699a8f4 /bin/bash

2. See time zone cat /etc/timezone : out put Etc/UTC

3. set new time zone, with nano : Asia/Colombo (your timezone here)

4. Restart the container