k8s-timezone-config

k8s-timezone-config is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,108 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for setting the timezone of Kubernetes pods, the isolated application units Kubernetes runs. It configures the TZ environment variable so applications and logs use America/Sao_Paulo instead of UTC.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deploying Helm workloads or raw Kubernetes Deployments and StatefulSets that need São Paulo time, or when logs show the wrong timezone.
Why use it?
It addresses confusing timestamps when containers show UTC while the organization expects Brazil time. It also points out that every container in a multi-container workload must be configured.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when deploying Helm workloads or raw Kubernetes Deployments and StatefulSets that need São Paulo time, or when logs show the wrong timezone.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00111

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6bb265184191, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

k8s-timezone-config scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/k8s-timezone-config/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

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Kubernetes Pod Timezone Configuration

Standard timezone for your organization infrastructure: America/Sao_Paulo

Problem

Kubernetes pods run in UTC by default. Logs and application timestamps show +0000 offset instead of local Brazil time (-0300).

Solution

Add the TZ environment variable to container specifications.

Implementation Patterns

1. Helm Values (extraEnv pattern)

For Helm charts that support extraEnv:

# In values.yaml
extraEnv:
  - name: TZ
    value: America/Sao_Paulo

2. Multiple Containers

When a deployment has multiple containers (e.g., API server + frontend), add TZ to ALL containers:

apiServer:
  extraEnv:
    - name: TZ
      value: America/Sao_Paulo

frontend:
  extraEnv:
    - name: TZ
      value: America/Sao_Paulo

3. Raw Kubernetes Deployment

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: app
          env:
            - name: TZ
              value: America/Sao_Paulo

4. StatefulSet

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: app
          env:
            - name: TZ
              value: America/Sao_Paulo

Verification

After deployment, verify timezone is set correctly:

# Check pod logs for timestamp offset
# Before: 2026-01-13T11:37:06 +0000
# After:  2026-01-13T08:37:06 -0300

# Or exec into pod
kubectl exec -it <pod-name> -n <namespace> -- date
# Should show: Mon Jan 13 08:37:06 -03 2026

Common Applications Requiring Timezone

Application Config Location Notes
Dependency-Track apiServer.extraEnv + frontend.extraEnv Both containers need TZ
Grafana env or extraEnvVars Single container
Loki extraEnv Affects log timestamps
Prometheus server.env Affects alert timestamps
DefectDojo extraEnv Django app
PostgreSQL primary.extraEnvVars Database timestamps

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Changes

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Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 131 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6bb265184191

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k8s-timezone-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,108 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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