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MATLAB error`The system time zone setting, '/UTC', is not valid` due to default timezone setting #35

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craig-willis opened this issue Nov 23, 2021 · 0 comments

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craig-willis commented Nov 23, 2021

Problem
Reported via Slack:

When using the default timezone via repo2docker, MATLAB returns

Error using datetime (line 551)
The system time zone setting, '/UTC', is not valid. See the datetime.TimeZone 
property for details about specifying time zones.

To Repeat:

Create a new MATLAB Desktop R2020b tale
Run datetime(2014,3,8:9,6,0,0,'TimeZone','local', 'Format','d-MMM-y HH:mm:ss Z')
Run system("cat /etc/timezone") returns /UTC

MATLAB doesn't seem to handle the /UTC value instead expecting UTC.

Possible solutions

Don't use local...
Specify UTC timezone during r2d build either generally or in MATLAB buildpack, since it's the only one that cares
Mount host timezones during container start

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