Hi again Ryan,
Reading back, I want to make sure we haven’t got some crossed wires here. I think what you want to be doing is setting the timezone in the kiosk service, right? All of the containers will run at UTC by standard, and you need to reconfigure each one that you need to work in a different timezone.
The TZ variable setting has come from this part of the dash readme hasn’t it: https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-dash#automate-backlight-switching
That section is about the scheduler service which controls switch the backlight on and off for the connected display, basically so that the screen isn’t blaring out light while you’re in bed. This will not set the timezone for all of the services/containers, including the kiosk service. For that you’ll need to use the instructions here: https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/OS/time/ which links to this repo: https://github.com/balena-io-examples/balena-timezone
Basically, it’s not a feature baked into the kiosk service.
The other route (although it will take longer than you doing the above yourself) is to raise an issue for the TZ feature to be implemented here:
The reason being: we are about to release a new version of balenaDash which uses that repo as the browser (all Chromium based). Adding an issue would see one of the labs team implement a timezone customisation feature to the browser block, which would enable it in the balenaDash project. This would also serve anyone else who wishes to use that feature.
Or even better, you could implement the code and raise a PR on the browser block repo. We’d truly love you forever then.
Phil
