Sure thing, you have to create another port mapping in the container template so that you can connect directly like:
(5900 is the default port in the container you can take whatever host port you want as long as it is not already in use)
That's really strange, it should basically match the timezone from the host, to change it to PDT create a Variable like this:
(I don't know where you are exactly but America/Los_Angeles should do the job fine if you want to change it to PDT)