· I have ROCK installed on an Intel NUC, but I cannot set the system time zone, which appears to mean that I have to change the backup time after a DST shift (I'm in Europe/London TZ). The RoPiee web UI gives the option of setting the time zone but the ROCK web UI does not. I think Roon Remote is using the system time zone of the machine on which _it_ is running, but that doesn't work for setting a backup schedule to run on the Roon Server at a particular time. Perhaps it would be possible to specify the time zone in that backup settings dialog, as that may be the only place the server needs to understand the time zone: for the backup schedule.
You don’t need to set the local time zone on RoonOS - you can’t in any case; RoonOS uses UTC 0. Just set your backup schedule time in Roon, this uses your local time zone as set in your PC, Mac or Smartphone.
Sure, I don’t mind what timezone the OS uses, but I would like the backup time to be honoured in my local time zone: I set it last month as 8am, while we were in GMT/winter, but when I went to use roon at 9am this morning (BST/summer), I had to wait for the backup to finish, and when I checked the schedule, it told me my schedule is now 9am. This suggests that the time you give it is stored in UTC, but presented back to me in Roon Remote’s time zone, which is correct, 8am UTC is indeed 9am BST, but I want the backup to run at 8am Europe/London time.
You could achieve this by storing the time zone as part of the schedule, but that’s tricky to reconcile with a cron-style scheduler - much easier would be to allow the server’s time zone to be set.
I have a very small window between 7.30am and 9am local to complete the roon backup, so I’d like not to have to adjust the backup time every 5/7 months.
As another feature request, perhaps Roon could continue to function as normal while a backup is running! Then I would be a lot less fussed about exactly when my backup runs.
Thanks for writing in! Both of your thoughts are better suited over in our Feedback or #feature request categories in Roon. Here’s a link to get you started:
Certainly, let us know if you have any other questions or issues you’d like to troubleshoot. Thank you!
Hi @benjamin, I would say this is a bug if you want your backup to run at a particular local time in many time zones which have daylight savings. As I said in my folllow-up:
I set it last month as 8am, while we were in GMT/winter, but when I went to use roon at 9am this morning (BST/summer), I had to wait for the backup to finish, and when I checked the schedule, it told me my schedule is now 9am.
IMO that’s a bug. My ‘feature’ suggestions would be fixes for that bug.
