Hey all! We’ve been working on some improvements to how timezones are handled on the backend to improve the reliability of the “User’s Current Timezone” option, and we wanted to give the Bubble community a heads up before launching! For reference, at the moment there are some situations where Bubb…

Hello Alex, I have a question regarding using dates that are sent to a Server-side Actions. Currently, all dates used in Fields of a Server-side Action default to the UTC (GMT+0), when the date values are returned to Bubble, Bubble converts those dates back to the “User’s Current Timezone”. Is th…

Your example is effectively changing the timezone from the user’s current timezone (which Bubble sets by default) to a different timezone (EST in your example) I would argue that this is not accurate – in that example, we have a textual representation of the date and we are interpreting it either…

Hey Fabrice, Can you give me a little more context for what you’re trying to do? Are you writing a plugin and trying to parse dates in the plugin? Are you using a plugin? Are you using built-in workflow actions that occur serverside? Or are you doing something else?

Hello Alex, Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not putting more context. Yes, I have a custom Server-Side Action from a Plugin that generates dates in the future based on a date field from the Database. I then filter out specific dates based on another date field that also comes from the Database. W…

[image] alex.stanescu: we have a textual representation of the date and we are interpreting it either in EST or in the user’s current timezone. Understood. What Bubble does now is simply allow one to display the time represented by underlying timestamp in different timezones. The timestamp it…

Hi @fabrice.latour04 , [image] fabrice.latour04: This is generating problems when comparing 2 dates, as the Script interprets them as equal when they shouldn’t be from the User Data point of view. I understand what you mean. The same moment in time is represented by different dates in the 2 d…

Hello Steve, [image] sudsy: As a stopgap measure, you could probably use a JS snippet and the Toolbox plugin to pass the user’s time zone to the SSA… Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone Thanks for giving your insight on this matter (Note: I don’t think options.timeZone is suppo…

[image] fabrice.latour04: I use the Bubble operator :filtered to ensure all dates are in the correct Timezone, as Timezones propagate in Scheduled API workflows. Sounds like a clever work-around. :slightly_smiling_face: Doesn’t surprise me that IE doesn’t support contemporary API’s. I’m fortu…

Hi Fabrice, Sorry about the delayed reply! What you describe sounds like it is something best handled through our bug reporting system. That way we can assign time to do a full investigation of the cause and plan for a fix. Do you mind submitting a bug report for that? Thanks!

[image] sudsy: Having a :change timezone to operator would also enable me to more easily save time-only values as Bubble date types by converting Bubble dates to a common (the same) timezone regardless of the timezone of the user who entered the value. (Think of merchants across the globe specif…

Upcoming Updates to Timezone Handling in the Backend

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grace.hong July 11, 2022, 8:12pm 26

Hi all - just wanted to announce that we’ve released new experimental features that give you more control when working with timezones. Learn more here: New features to override timezones

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