Open kattni opened 1 year ago
So..... I checked it again, and io.receive_time()
is returning ET, which is accurate for me. Not sure what to make of that. It was definitely not working last Wednesday for myself, or Liz (which is to say it wasn't a me-issue).
I'm leaving this open in case it's an intermittent bug. Feel free to close it if you think it was a glitch.
Possibly related? https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?p=985703#p985703
Just to note I've added an optional timezone argument to the io.receive_time
method as part of another PR, so maybe this can be closed by #124, although this issue appears to be more about the incorrect autodetection.
The timezone/tz argument is left off of the request by default so still uses a timezone based on geo-location mapping for the clients IP address, and that falls back to UTC on lookup failure. Separately one can now supply the timezone argument and request "UTC" or "GB", "NZ" etc in accordance with the time service docs https://io.adafruit.com/services/time [must be logged in] or effectively this TZ list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
The AdafruitIO library does not provide the option to provide the
tz
parameter to specify timezone, which is the first thing IO looks for to return a time when usingio.receive_time()
.The second thing IO tries is "guessing" your timezone based on your IP address. This does not appear to be working; it is instead defaulting to UTC.
The final thing IO does is return UTC, which as said above, is happening regardless.
I tested it on a Feather ESP32-S3 TFT board, using CircuitPython 8.0.0-beta.4 and this library. I get UTC from
io.receive_time()
, every time.cc: @brentru @lorennorman @jwcooper
That said, in my project code, I received a workaround for this issue from @jepler in the form of a class in my code. This really only helps if you want to make a workaround in this library, versus fixing the feature in IO itself. But I thought it was worth including either way.
Which is used when instantiating the
io
object as follows: