Cannot change assignment start to match course start

[ragesoss]

There appears to be more trouble after the recent tweaks to timezone handling.

For this course, the start date shows April 1, but is actually April 2, and you can selected April 2 as the timeline start, but it ends up actually being April 3:

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[khyatisoneji]

Hi @ragesoss can you please give some pointers to how to import this course json? Also is this a beginner level bug or an advanced level issue

[ragesoss]

@khyatisoneji you can get the json for any give course by going to the course.json route for it, for example, in this case: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Cottey_College/Gender_in_Cross-Cultural_Perspective_(Spring_2019)/course.json

The issue should be replicable if you save a course in your database with the start, end and timeline start/end dates from the JSON, and then also set your computer to western timezone like UTC-7. Then you can visit it on the frontend and try to change the dates.

This probably only affects the wiki_education: true configuration, because the frontend behaves differently based on whether exact times or just dates are used for setting the start/end.

It's not a beginner level bug, but I think you could solve it. The main thing will be to solve it in a way that works for users in any timezone.