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Docker image created date is displaying incorrectly

I am relatively new to Docker and have noticed a strange issue with the images I am creating.

My very simple Dockerfile looks like this:

FROM php:5.4-apache
COPY --chown=www-data:www-data src /var/www/html
COPY php/php.ini /usr/local/etc/php
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql

After I build the image and use the ‘docker image ls’ command I get the following output.

REPOSITORY              TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED        SIZE
xxxxx/dcalc             latest    ea718faxxxxx   6 years ago    477MB

I don’t understand why the CREATED date is showing 6 years ago. I get that the base image (referred to in the FROM command) is that old, but shouldn’t my image which has a COPY command in it create a new image with a current created date?

If this is expected behaviour can somebody explain why it is correct?

EDIT: I am on MacOS using Docker Desktop, but its the same behaviour on Linux (Docker version 20.10.17, build 100c701).

Thanks.

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  1. 0

    If you want to check the date of docker image which is created on your system, you can use:-

    docker ps -a

    docker images command shows the date which the image is created.

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  2. 0

    The best way to get rid of this file modified date issue is to set timezone for linux instance

    in Dockerfile

    RUN rm /etc/localtime
RUN ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Istanbul /etc/localtime

    Change your timezone and find it from /usr/share/zoneinfo/* for your timezone.

    docker-compose down
docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

    timezone of you and docker instance is now the same.

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