# Percona operator backup-agent chang timezone from UTC

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-backup-agent-chang-timezone-from-utc/27545>\
**Category:** Percona Operator for MongoDB\
**Created:** [January 3, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-backup-agent-chang-timezone-from-utc/27545 "2024-01-03T00:59:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-backup-agent-chang-timezone-from-utc/27545/1 "2024-01-03T00:59:16Z")

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## Description:

Frist, Thank you for your reading my topic 🙂  
I want to change timezone of backup-agent container in cluster on k8s.

## Steps to Reproduce:

when I install mongodb cluster on eks using helm (below values.yaml)

```auto
backup:
  enabled: true
  image:
    repository: percona/percona-backup-mongodb
    tag: 2.3.1
  storages:
    s3-percona-mongodb-backup:
      type: s3
      s3:
        region: ap-northeast-2
        bucket: my-bucket
        prefix: "test"
        credentialsSecret: mongodb-secrets-backup
  tasks:

```

all files use UTC time zone

```auto
// backup-agent timezone
[mongodb@mongodb-test-psmdb-db-rs0-0 /]$ date
Wed Jan 3 00:48:59 UTC 2024

// pbm list
[mongodb@mongodb-test-psmdb-db-rs0-0 /]$ pbm list
Backup snapshots:
  2024-01-02T12:00:51Z <physical> [restore_to_time: 2024-01-02T12:00:53Z]

PITR <on>:
  2024-01-02T12:00:54Z - 2024-01-03T00:52:17Z

```

So, when I run pitr restore, I should calculate timezone from UTC to my timezone.  
In this [topic](https://forums.percona.com/t/why-pbm-is-not-using-the-servers-timezone/9452), say that designed to use UTC for avoid to occur something error.

Is it recommended use only UTC? If so, I will use just UTC timezone.  
If not, can I know that how to chang backup-agent container’s timezone in manual way?  
I think, Re-dockerizing backup-agent image is not good idea… (wondering side effect)

## Version:

operator : 1.15.0  
server : 6.0.9-7  
backup-agent : 2.3.1  
eks version : 1.27

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**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-backup-agent-chang-timezone-from-utc/27545/2 "2024-01-09T08:06:09Z")

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I decide to use UTC. It is reasonable way in my minde 🙂

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**Author:** ![meqintosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@meqintosh](https://forums.percona.com/u/meqintosh)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-operator-backup-agent-chang-timezone-from-utc/27545/3 "2024-01-16T12:10:14Z")

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How add +4 timezone in mongo backup agent ?