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    • Substring
      Substring @cagiraudo last edited by

      @cagiraudo you need i think 5 files to make an update : root and boot.tar.gz, their sha1 file each, and the root.list. no recalbox at hand now, so i can't say for sure

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      • cagiraudo
        cagiraudo last edited by

        @Substring I managed to update to 4.1, then i deleted the 2 files /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime. I updated to the test branch but it still have the wrong date:

        date
        Tue Jan 1 11:52:28 ART 1980

        😞

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        • azvarel
          azvarel last edited by

          @cagiraudo

          Did you do it on SSH mount -o remount,rw / and then deleted the files?

          if he did and continued it is strange.

          So you do not waste any more time, you can do is to manually edit these files by accessing them with winscp /etc/localtime edit link and /etc/timezone editing with notepad++

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          • cagiraudo
            cagiraudo last edited by cagiraudo

            @azvarel
            I did mount -o remount,rw / before deleting those files, i confirmed they deleted before updating.

            I don't get the second part, do you want me to manual edit the localtime and timezone files? I use linux, but i will be able to do it, but i don't get what change should i do

            I made cat to those files and had:
            cat timezone
            America/Argentina/Cordoba

            ls -lh localtime
            lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 31 22:19 localtime -> /var/localtime

            cat localtime
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            ��
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            • azvarel
              azvarel @cagiraudo last edited by azvarel

              @cagiraudo

              List of timezone (I do not know what city / region you are, I can not say straight)
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

              To see my timezone I can use (in terminal) the command:

              `cat /etc/timezone
              America/Recife

              The answer was accurate, I'm in America/Recife timezone.

              To change to the timezone from Recife to Cordoba we will check the name of this time zone doing:

              ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina

              Now look in the list displayed by the desired timezone. We can also search using a search keyword, for example "Cordoba", with the command:

              ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina | grep Cordoba
              Cordoba

              See that in the case I looked for the word "Cordoba" and gave very well. The response to the command indicates that the file named "Cordoba" exists.

              Well, now that we already know the correct file name, let's change the contents of /etc/timezone using your favorite text editor, as in:

              vi/etc/timezone

              or

              gedit /etc/timezone

              or

              mcedit /etc/timezone

              Then change from America/Recife to America/Argentina/Cordoba.

              Now to update using the TZ variable do:

              export TZ = America/Argentina/Cordoba

              Let's check with:

              date

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              • azvarel
                azvarel last edited by

                Editing localtime

                mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old
                ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Cordoba /etc/localtime
                date

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                • Substring
                  Substring last edited by

                  you're not supposed to manually edit anything, the update should have added /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime as symlinks to /var/timezone and /var/localtime, both of the latter files are set at recalbox root

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                  • azvarel
                    azvarel @Substring last edited by

                    @Substring I know it is not the correct way to do it, but it was this way that I solved it before the gitlab update that you gave me and when I came back to the unstable version, again correct that way and it is working, as I described here https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/issues/1264

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                    • Substring
                      Substring @azvarel last edited by

                      @azvarel yeah, but i need a way to make it work for everyone, without putting hands in the engine

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                      • cagiraudo
                        cagiraudo last edited by

                        @Substring @azvarel BREAKING NEWS. It is a firewall problem, at least i think so. I changed to another wifi (sharing it with my cellphone) and the date magically updated, no more 1980, it bring me back to 2017.

                        So... i know it isn't recalbox problem, but, have you any idea what could it be? Recalbox is conected to internet, it sayed "Conected" and i can update and everything.

                        The first time i installed recalbox i have a similar problem that it was connected but it said Not Conected because my firewall was blocking the pings https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/7448/wifi-working-but-still-not-conected, i disabled the firewall (at least i think i did) and the ping worked ant the status now says Conected. Maybe it has something to do with that.

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                        • Substring
                          Substring @cagiraudo last edited by

                          @cagiraudo now yourrouter/isp blocks NTP 😉

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