From d2f7467e90d3dd68e7bfe0ab3e2323fd8628f9f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anna-Rehm <Anna.Rehm@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:06:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add tzdata package and configure timezone to run analyses

---
 Images/qp-qiime2/qp-qiime2.dockerfile | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Images/qp-qiime2/qp-qiime2.dockerfile b/Images/qp-qiime2/qp-qiime2.dockerfile
index 499f542..629e40c 100644
--- a/Images/qp-qiime2/qp-qiime2.dockerfile
+++ b/Images/qp-qiime2/qp-qiime2.dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ RUN apt-get -y --fix-missing install \
 	python3-dev \
 	gcc \
 	build-essential \
-	zip
+	zip \
+	tzdata
 
 # install miniforge3 for "conda"
 # see https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge-images/blob/master/ubuntu/Dockerfile
@@ -74,6 +75,15 @@ RUN export QIITA_CONFIG_FP=/qiita/config_qiita_oidc.cfg
 # let the container know it's plugin name
 ENV PLUGIN=qp-qiime2
 
+# configure language
+ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+ENV LANG=C.UTF-8
+
+# configure timezone
+RUN ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /etc/localtime
+RUN dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
+
+
 WORKDIR /
 
 COPY start_qp-qiime2.sh .