Phase start/end do not work properly with datetime

[johann-petrak]

In order to debug what will be happening when a phase change occurs I configured two phases like this:

phases:
  - name: Setup Phase
    description: '...'
    start: 2024-03-01T13:00:00+02:00
    end: 2024-04-10T13:00:00+02:00
    max_submissions_per_day: 1000
    max_submissions: 1000
    execution_time_limit: 60
    solutions: []
    tasks:
      - 0
  - name: Trial Phase
    description: '....'
    start: 2024-04-10T14:00:00+02:00
    end: 2024-04-30
    max_submissions_per_day: 20
    max_submissions: 20
    execution_time_limit: 60
    solutions: []
    # public_data: public_data
    # starting_kit: starting_kit
    tasks:
      - 0

When uploading the bundle, I get the error:

Creation failed

Phases dates conflict. Phase: Trial Phase should start after Phase: Setup Phase has ended

Obviously, the trial phase DOES start after the setup phase has ended, there is even a gap of one hour!

This seems to be rather broken: if I instead use the starting datetime 2024-04-11T14:00:00+02:00 forthe trial phase, it does work, but the indicated information in the web page is all wrong:

• it shows "CURRENT PHASE ENDS: Never" which is wrong
• in the phase timeline, the end of the current (setup) phase is shown as April 10 2024 2am + 2 which is wrong
• in the phase timeline, the beginning of the trial phase is shown as April 11 2024 2am + 2 which is wrong

Note that the documentation says "start: Datetime string for the start of the competition. Isoformat strings are recommended." so a datetime (not just a date) should be allowed and indeed that would be essential to coordinate the work and for testing.

[Didayolo]

Related:

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[johann-petrak]

This seems to be two bugs really: showing "Never" in the overview is a separate bug and when that happens, it is not possible to submit any submissions any more see #1400

[Didayolo]

This issue is a duplicate of #1155. The remaining point in #1155 is to add the possibility to use actual datetime for start and end dates of phases. Right now this feature is not implemented, only the dates are taken into account.