Retroarch: Change Timezone from UI

[rejurime]

Description

It would be great if a user interface option to change the time zone could be added to RA.

Expected behavior

Can change Timezone from UI in Lakka/RA

Actual behavior

To change the timezone in Lakka you have to do https://github.com/libretro/Lakka/wiki/Timezone-settings and for some people it is difficult.

Environment information

• OS: Lakka 2.1rc3 in Raspberry Pi 3

[fennectech]

Howo do you manualy configure timezone in retroarch?

[albertvolkman]

@fennectech here is the updated link referenced by @rejurime-

https://github.com/libretro/Lakka-LibreELEC/wiki/Timezone-settings

[bparker06]

Unless you're talking about changing the system timezone programmatically (which I don't think belongs in RA), I don't think this is possible (portably) without some kind of cross-platform timezone library that would need to be constantly updated. Better to just set your system to the timezone you want to see everywhere anyway.

[orbea]

I suppose that could be possible as a Lakka only feature, alternatively it might be possible to change the timezone in RA independently of the system time, but I'm not sure it would be very useful...

[TheLastProject]

I'm new to RetroArch but I would be willing to give implementing this as a Lakka-only feature a try.

I will need to test this though, which means I will need to know what the steps are to replace retroarch in a Lakka install. I suppose I just need to compile a new retroarch binary, systemctl stop retroarch, overwrite /usr/bin/retroarch with my own compiled binary and then systemctl start retroarch?

[gouchi]

Hi,

You can try to use this ifdef HAVE_LAKKA and test directly on your PC using
make HAVE_LAKKA=1

Thank you.

[TheLastProject]

I've written some code in https://github.com/TheLastProject/RetroArch/commit/baa7578c5b72c9fc24dcf27b46e77811db0d6bf4 but I'm having trouble making anything appear in the menus (been at it for hours):

Any pointers?