A new Timezone setting, and a Device time card on System Info

People have asked since 2023 for a way to see and set the time from the web interface. Anthias 2026.07.2 adds a Timezone setting under Settings > Display & playback. The timezone you pick decides when content with a play window or chosen weekdays plays, and how times are shown across the web interface. A change applies as soon as you save, with no restart.

This matters most on balena installs, where the host runs on UTC and Anthias had no way to follow your local time. It works the same on every install. Leave it on "System default" and Anthias follows the TZ environment variable if the container has one, then the host's timezone, then UTC.

System Info has a new Device time card. It shows the player's date and time in the timezone Anthias is using, with its offset from UTC, and keeps ticking while the page is open. The time comes from the player, not your browser, so a player with a wrong clock shows up straight away instead of looking right on your laptop.

Setting the clock itself, or choosing an NTP server, still happens outside Anthias.

For developers

The choice is stored as timezone in the [main] section of anthias.conf, as an IANA name such as Europe/London. An empty value means "System default". It's also the timezone field of /api/v2/device_settings, and /api/v2/info has a new time object with the player's iso time, timezone and offset. Anthias refuses a name the player's tzdata doesn't have, and a bad value written to the file by hand is ignored rather than stopping the web interface from starting.