PHP date.timezone not found with Docker & PHP-FPM - php

Question

I'm creating a Symfony environment (PHP-FPM, Nginx, & more) with Docker & Docker-compose.
But, PHP does not use my php.ini and ignores the config (date.timezone parameter is not found in my Symfony application).
Of course, when I go on my container, the date.timezone is correctly set in the 2 php.ini (cli & FPM).
I don't understand why, but it works if I put my php.ini in /usr/local/etc/php/ folder (wtf)
Did I miss something?
docker-compose.yml :
nginx:
image: nginx
volumes:
- "./docker/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro"
links:
- "php:php"
ports:
- "80:80"
- "443:443"
working_dir: "/etc/nginx"
php:
build: docker/php
volumes:
- ".:/var/www:rw"
working_dir: "/var/www"
Dockerfile :
FROM php:5-fpm
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN apt-get update && \
apt-get install -y php5-common php5-fpm php5-cli php5-mysql php5-apcu php5-intl php5-imagick && \
apt-get clean && \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
RUN sed -i 's/;date.timezone =/date.timezone = "Europe\/Paris"/g' /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
RUN sed -i 's/;date.timezone =/date.timezone = "Europe\/Paris"/g' /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
RUN usermod -u 1000 www-data

Answer 1

Official PHP Docker Image use /usr/local/etc/php as base folder: see Dockerfile.

Answer 2

I've been facing the same problem for a while, the host machine had a correct date/time but every php container was in GMT instead of Europe/Paris or host date time.
For those of you who will search for a valid answer and need more precisions than #moliver answer, using sed in the dockerfile maybe not the best answer. Moreover, php.ini might not be created at building time. Here is the ls of /usr/local/etc/php in one of my php container.
root#6fd7bc929a7e:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d# ls
docker-php-ext-bcmath.ini docker-php-ext-exif.ini docker-php-ext-mysqli.ini docker-php-ext-soap.ini docker-php-ext-xsl.ini
docker-php-ext-bz2.ini docker-php-ext-gd.ini docker-php-ext-pcntl.ini docker-php-ext-tidy.ini docker-php-ext-zip.ini
docker-php-ext-calendar.ini docker-php-ext-mcrypt.ini docker-php-ext-pdo_mysql.ini docker-php-ext-xmlrpc.ini ext-imagick.ini
(yes i added a lot of extensions, but no php.ini by default).
docker-compose is very flexible, you can add a volume containing php.ini info :
version: '2'
services:
php:
build: ./DOCKERFILES/phpdemo
container_name: applicationDEMO
volumes:
- "./conf/whatever.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/whatever.ini"
- "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro"
- "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
And in your ./conf/whatever.ini
date.timezone = "Europe/Paris"
Hope this helps

Answer 3

I had this issue in my php:5.6-apache docker image.
I simply added these two lines in my dockerfile:
# use development php ini
RUN mv /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini-development /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
# set default timezone
RUN sed -ri -e 's!;date.timezone =!date.timezone = "Europe/Paris"!g' /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
It worked well. :-)