TImes should be displayed using timezone derived by user location, or user configuration

[weierophinney]

Steps to reproduce

As an example, my server is set to UTC.

As a user, I've set my location, which is in North America.

When I go to my dashboard, as a result, the time displayed with the weather widget is in UTC, and not local time.

Expected behaviour

I would expect one or both of the following:

• Timezone is derived from the user's location.
• User can specify their timezone.
• Anywhere time is specified in the UI, the timezone would be used.

Actual behaviour

Times are always presented based on the server timezone.

Server configuration detail

Operating system: Linux 5.4.0-52-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 15 10:57:00 UTC 2020 x86_64

Webserver: Apache (fpm-fcgi)

Database: mysql 5.7.32

PHP version:

7.4.13
Modules loaded: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, bcmath, bz2, ctype, curl, dom, hash, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gmp, SPL, iconv, intl, json, ldap, mbstring, pcntl, PDO, session, posix, Reflection, standard, SimpleXML, mysqlnd, exif, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, zip, pdo_mysql, cgi-fcgi, redis, Zend OPcache

Nextcloud version: 20.0.2 - 20.0.2.2

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install: updated via snap

Where did you install Nextcloud from: snap

Signing status

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List of activated apps

Enabled:
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 - activity: 2.13.3
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 - twofactor_u2f: 6.0.0
 - user_status: 1.0.1
 - viewer: 1.4.0
 - weather_status: 1.0.0
 - workflowengine: 2.2.0
Disabled:
 - cookbook
 - encryption
 - files_downloadactivity
 - files_readmemd
 - passman
 - qownnotesapi
 - quicknotes
 - ransomware_protection
 - registration
 - twofactor_email
 - user_ldap

Configuration (config/config.php)

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    "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "trusted_domains": [
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    "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
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Are you using external storage, if yes which one: Digital Ocean Spaces

Are you using encryption:

Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one: none

Client configuration

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36

Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04

Logs

Web server error log

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Nextcloud log

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Browser log

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a) The javascript console log
b) The network log
c) ...

[pongraczi]

On the dashboard (v20.0.3) I can see the following weather status:

• The location is (Hungary / Vác GMT+1 at this moment).
• The server timezone set to Europe/Budapest.
• In fact, the local time is 12:41, the temperature more or less accurate.

So, I have no idea, how is 17:00 visible on the dashboard.

Meanwhile the windy.com shows the following when I click on the dashboard widget:

[kesselb]

@pongraczi #23399

[kesselb]

Thanks for your bug report @weierophinney 👍

Times are always presented based on the server timezone.

We send a request to a weather forecast service based on your location. We don't take the server time in account. The widget shows the upcoming weather. I guess it looks like UTC because the forecast is usually in 4 to 6 hours.

Closing this report in favour of #23399.