Hi. How do you guys observe time zone? I found Tim...

# multiplatform

[Giorgi]

Hi. How do you guys observe time zone? I found TimeZone.currentSystemDefault from kotlinx dateTime but this does not provide updates

[Alexandru Caraus]

Wow, you live on the border between two timezones? Never heard anyone needing that.

You can check that with gps location somehow.

[rkechols]

Are you asking for something observable that triggers when timezone changes? I don't know if that exists, but you can always build something that polls for it.

You could usa a StateFlow, with a coroutine that runs an infinite loop to poll the current timezone and put the latest into the flow, calling delay between checks

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

Eg. on mobile apps it can be an issue, that when you cross borders/states, you want to update your UI to show the times in the new timezone. But basically any user facing interface can benefit of showing data in the users chosen language/locale and date/time settings

[Giorgi]

my reasoning was that Googles sample app has it and I wanted it as well. Here is Android implementation https://github.com/android/nowinandroid/blob/a0f278663409e205d292ad88d17970de43ba5[…]gle/samples/apps/nowinandroid/core/data/util/TimeZoneMonitor.kt

[Giorgi]

I guess I will go lazy way and just check timezone at startup. It's just maybe there was a library for it already and I could use...