"RTC" updating app suggestions #514
SirPrimalform
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I've just seen the new release makes some changes to the way time is handled. I haven't had a chance to install it yet, but the changelog makes it sound like my first suggestion has been made redundant! |
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to suggest this but I have some ideas that could improve the time setting app.
The main one is that when you set the time, it saves that in a file as well as setting the clock. When the app is started again, it should compare the current clock time and date and the one stored in the file and load whichever is later, ready for you to update it. As it currently is, after a reboot the clock app loads back up thinking it's March 1970. Updating from that takes extra time but must be done because Retroarch seems to have a bug that crashes on any RTC game if the clock has gone backwards at all. It's not enough to set the current time, you have to make sure the date hasn't gone backwards. I have verified this happens on the PC as well so it's not a bug specific to this port, it has probably just gone unnoticed on devices with a genuine RTC. If the clock updater app didn't default back to 1970 it would certainly be faster to update the time and date to the present to ensure time has not "gone backwards" resulting in a crash.
The other suggestion is a quality of life improvement. When scrolling through the numbers to set the time and date, it would be helpful if the numbers wrapped from 0 to the maximum in both directions. Currently exceeding the max number wraps to 0 but not the other way around.
Thanks for all the work already done! If we were all depending on the stock launcher this wouldn't be half the device it is.
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