Mount denied - Path /etc/localtime is not shared from OS X and is not known to Docker

[ChaiBapchya]

MAC OS version - Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1408)
Docker version - 18.03.0-ce, build 0520e24

Reproduce this error as

$ docker-compose up -d
Starting c1b9c5a1c9d4_netstats ... error

ERROR: for c1b9c5a1c9d4_netstats  Cannot start service netstats: b'Mounts denied: \r\nThe path /etc/localtime\r\nis not shared from OS X and is not known to Docker.\r\nYou can configure shared paths from Docker -> Preferences... -> File Sharing.\r\nSee https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs/#namespaces for more info.\r\n.'

ERROR: for netstats  Cannot start service netstats: b'Mounts denied: \r\nThe path /etc/localtime\r\nis not shared from OS X and is not known to Docker.\r\nYou can configure shared paths from Docker -> Preferences... -> File Sharing.\r\nSee https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs/#namespaces for more info.\r\n.'
ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project.

[ChaiBapchya]

While trying docker-compose up -d, got this error - Issue - docker/for-mac#2396
Solution that worked for me

$ mkdir ~/etc
$ vi ~/etc/timezone

Enter the timezone (mine was America/New_York)

Later updated the docker-compose.yml file with the following

  - ~/etc/timezone:/etc/localtime:ro
     # - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro #comment this

[Asone]

I'm not even sure the localtime is necessary.

I had the same problem, tried many different solutions, even making a new ln -s to the localtime folder location until i commented out the volumes pointing out for localtime.

It seems to work on my machine.

Note that /etc/localtime itself is no more than a symlink to /private/etc/localtime on Mac OS .
Trying to attach directly to /private/etc/localtime brought me an error too though

[franz-josef-kaiser]

In case someone else running macOS 11 Big Sur stumbles upon this: Sharing the /private folder works (for me):

# docker-compose.yml
    volumes:
      - /private/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

The /private-resource was added in Docker 3.1 macOS desktop app preferences.