Bug 62723

Summary:	Fetching events by date does not respect local timezone
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Dan Vrátil <dvratil>
Component:	logger	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	rishi.is
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Dan Vrátil 2013-03-25 12:56:33 UTC

Retrieving messages for a specific date returns messages according to UTC timezone, not user's locale timezone.

This means that when I'm in UTC+1 timezone and I receive a message on 2013-03-25 00:01:00+01:00 ( = 2013-03-24 23:01:00+00:00 ), the message will not be listed when querying for messages from 2013-03-25. This also means that when querying for 2013-03-24, I'll incorrectly receive messages retrieved between 2013-03-25 00:00:00+01:00 and 2013-03-25 00:59:59+01:00.

To display messages to users correctly according to their timezone, one have query all messages from requested day and the day before (or the day after, depending on whether it's UTC+x or UTC-x timezone), convert all message timestamps and discard messages that don't fit into the requested time frame. 

This is quite complicated and I think such behaviour is a bug.

Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 19:32:01 UTC

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