Start and end of day incorrect for timezone

[johnhamilton]

Problem description

When i start ActivityWatch it shows the wrong day not that current day as its recording today's data for the 15th but its the 16th in Australia and on my computer clock.

What i think the problem is

The code that is recording the the Activity is using a USA data and code showing the page is using the Australia data/my computers data.

[johnhamilton]

Seams to change to the next day at Lunch/Midday it should be switched to midnight maybe?

[ErikBjare]

Definitely! I thought we had fixed this, but apparently, it persists.

The data is likely logged correctly (we store everything in UTC). It's just the web UI that doesn't query the data correctly (for whatever reason doesn't take into account your timezone). I'll take a look at this.

[ErikBjare]

I think I fixed this issue here: ActivityWatch/aw-webui#49

It'll be included in the next release, thanks for reporting! 😄

[ErikBjare]

I'm closing this, please let me know if the new release fixed it for you @johnhamilton!

[ErikBjare]

This was not fixed. I did some digging and we seem to have slightly deeper problems, but a fix should be easy.

Example code:

from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
import aw_client

api = aw_client.ActivityWatchClient(testing=True)
buckets = api.get_buckets()

window_bid = next(bid for bid in buckets.keys() if "window" in bid and "testing" not in bid)
print(window_bid)

utcplus2h = timezone(timedelta(hours=2))
start = datetime(year=2017, month=10, day=27, hour=0, tzinfo=utcplus2h)
end = start + timedelta(hours=24)

events = api.get_events(window_bid, start=start, end=end, limit=-1)
print(len(events))
print(events[0].timestamp)
print(events[-1].timestamp)

Output:

aw-watcher-window_erb-main2-arch
8080
2017-10-27 13:26:10.608000+00:00
2017-10-27 00:09:23.451000+00:00

This output is wrong since the first event should not be from 00:09 UTC, but rather from right after 22:00 UTC. I suspect we are missing a dt.astimezone(timezone.utc) somewhere in the datastore layer.

• Write test that ensures timezones behave correctly
• Write a fix