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    • DJC
      DJC last edited by

      Can someone here explain how can I change the time zone, I live in Brazil and would like to put the correct time zone on my system. Thanks

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      • acris
        acris last edited by

        HELLO

        In recalbox.conf : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/recalbox.conf-(EN)

        # ------------ F - Language and keyboard ------------ #
        ## Set the language of the system (fr_FR,en_US,en_GB,de_DE,pt_BR,es_ES,it_IT,eu_ES,tr_TR,zh_CN)
        system.language=en_US
        ## set the keyboard layout (fr,en,de,us,es)
        ;system.kblayout=us
        ## Set you local time
        ## Select your timezone from : ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/ (string)
        system.timezone=Europe/Paris
        
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        • DJC
          DJC @acris last edited by

          @acris Got it, but what should I put in system.timezone=

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          • DjLeChuck
            DjLeChuck last edited by

            One of this:

            Brazil/Acre
            Brazil/DeNoronha
            Brazil/East
            Brazil/West

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            • digitaLumberjack
              digitaLumberjack Staff last edited by digitaLumberjack

              List of timezones : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

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              • DJC
                DJC last edited by

                Didn't work.
                Tryed Brazil/East
                Brazil/West
                América/Sao_Paulo

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                • Robson Maniasso
                  Robson Maniasso last edited by

                  timezone is not set in recalbox.conf. I found a way to set to Brazil.

                  1 - Remount your / filesystem to read-write

                  mount -o remount,rw /

                  2 - Unkink the /etc/localtime since it is set to Europe/Paris

                  unlink /etc/localtime

                  3 - create new symbolic link to Brazil/Sao_Paulo
                  ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo localtime

                  And finally type date to see your new timezone

                  date

                  Thu Sep 15 17:27:03 BRT 2016

                  Hope this helps.

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                  • Substring
                    Substring @Robson Maniasso last edited by

                    @Robson-Maniasso said in How to change time zone?:

                    Why didn't you just try system.timezone=America/Sao_Paulo instead of your trick ?

                    Former dev - Please reply with @substring so that i am notified when you answer me
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                    • RodsBrito
                      RodsBrito @Substring last edited by

                      @subs I've tryed it, but did not work

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                      • blackmagik
                        blackmagik last edited by

                        What worked for me was changing it in kodi. It affected the rest of the system that way. Start up kodi, settings/appearance/international/timezone.

                        May work for you but best of luck~

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                        • RodsBrito
                          RodsBrito @blackmagik last edited by

                          @blackmagik you're right. kodi is the best way. my time zone isn't correct, put I think it's because of summer time. I'll try to solve this. Thanks.

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