Trying to change the TZ so that my area appears for "Today" rather than Berlin!

[scooke]

Hello, hope some coding guru can help me out here. My VPS is in Germany, and thus whenever I hit the "Today" button in Dawarich it brings me to Berlin. But, I would like a specific city in Canada to appear.

I read https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/15088/how-to-use-the-rails-console and the last docs link to https://docs.cloudron.io/packages/dawarich/#rails-console, and from there went to the cli, to /app/code/ and entered app/code# export TIME_ZONE="America/Toronto", but nothing else happened to indicate it worked. I restarted the app, went to "Today" and I'm back in Berlin.

[james]

Hello @scooke
Did you try to put that into the /app/data/env.sh file?

export TIME_ZONE="America/Toronto"

?

[scooke]

@james There is no such file there. I shall make one with those deets in it and see what happens.

[james]

Hello @scooke
If there is no /app/data/env.sh that is strange.
The app would generate that on every app restart.
I just tried a fresh @dawarich installation and indeed the file is there.

[scooke]

Nope, it wasn't there until I made it, and now there is just export TIME_ZONE="America/Toronto" in it.

[james]

Hello @scooke
Are you sure? Do you use a volume or anything for the @dawarich app?
Because inside the /app/data/env.sh should also be the OTP_ENCRYPTION_PRIMARY_KEY, OTP_ENCRYPTION_DETERMINISTIC_KEY and OTP_ENCRYPTION_KEY_DERIVATION_SALT and if these are missing there should be all sorts of problems.
So I can't really imagine the file missing completely and even after an app restart.

[scooke]

Under /app/code there are similar looking files, like .env.development, .env.template, .env.test, but even there, there isn't an actual .env.sh.

But, yes, I am sure. There was no env.sh file, I had to make it, and thus there also aren't any of the other values you list. I suppose it is working. Do you want to go in a check?

[james]

Hello @scooke
I have just installed @dawarich two times.
Once with Leave user management to the app and once with Allow all users on this Cloudron and both times the /app/data/env.sh was created correctly.
Can you tell me what version of the @dawarich app you are using?

[scooke]

The info in the app dashboard says it was installed 10 months ago, and no updates for custom apps. Its version is 0.1.0! So this was before Cloudron was offering it. I suppose that is the reason. I wonder if I should just move to the Cloudron version which is now at version Dawarich 1.12.2 - Package version 1.17.2. Thanks for pursuing this, it's helped me see that it was an older custom app.

[james]

Hello @scooke
That explains it, glad we could find the issue.

[scooke]

ell, I'm back. After trying to enter in the TZ info, the app won't restart. I've removed the info from the env.sh file, and it still won't restart, and this is a recurring error message which seems unrelated:

Aug 19 12:22:01 2026-08-19T16:22:01Z 
Aug 19 12:22:01 Information for cause: Sprockets::Rails::Helper::AssetNotPrecompiledError (Asset `favicon/browserconfig.xml` was not declared to be precompiled in production.
Aug 19 12:22:01 Declare links to your assets in `app/assets/config/manifest.js`.
Aug 19 12:22:01 2026-08-19T16:22:01Z 
Aug 19 12:22:01 //= link favicon/browserconfig.xml
Aug 19 12:22:01 2026-08-19T16:22:01Z 
Aug 19 12:22:01 and restart your server):
Aug 19 12:22:01 2026-08-19T16:22:01Z 
Aug 19 12:22:01 app/views/application/_favicon.html.erb:8
Aug 19 12:22:01 app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:23
Aug 19 12:22:01 app/controllers/application_controller.rb:308:in 'ApplicationController#set_user_time_zone'
Aug 19 12:22:01 app/controllers/application_controller.rb:193:in 'ApplicationController#switch_locale'

Any idea? I should have just stuck with what was working!

[james]

Hello @scooke
What did you put into the /app/data/env.sh file?

[scooke]

I entered export TIME_ZONE="America/Toronto", and when the app didn't restart I tried export TIME_ZONE=America/Toronto, but that didn't restart either, and now with that line removed, it just won't restart, nor start after being stopped..

This is another error which repeats at the front end of starting up:

Aug 19 12:48:30 2026-08-19T16:48:30Z 
Aug 19 12:48:30 ActionView::Template::Error (Asset `favicon/browserconfig.xml` was not declared to be precompiled in production.
Aug 19 12:48:30 Declare links to your assets in `app/assets/config/manifest.js`.
Aug 19 12:48:30 2026-08-19T16:48:30Z 
Aug 19 12:48:30 //= link favicon/browserconfig.xml
Aug 19 12:48:30 2026-08-19T16:48:30Z 
Aug 19 12:48:30 and restart your server)
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[james]

Hello @scooke
The error does not really look related to the timezone.
If you comment out that export line or delte it and restart the app, is the app working again?

[scooke]

Sorry, there must be something wrong with my writing, or I am not understanding your questions. I deleted the export line, as I explained in the previous reply. What is it about my post that makes you ask whether I deleted the line or not?

I deleted the line, as I said, and wondered if the last line needed a hard return or not, so I tried both (no new line, and a hard return) but no matter, it just doesn't start anymore. Why would editing the env.sh file have such an effect? Should I delete that env.sh file and let the app recreate it?

[james]

Hello @scooke
Sorry, I skipped the:

@scooke said:

and now with that line removed

statement.

I will try to reproduce this error.

[james]

Hello @scooke
I was not able to reproduce this issue.
Can you try to put the app into recovery mode and starting it manually by running /app/pkg/start.sh from the web terminal?