HI - I've added a date picker node to my dashboard. When I look at the output and convert that unix timestamp to a real date time (e.g. on unixtimestamp.com ), it always seems to set the time to 9:10am (UTC). I was assuming that the date picker would output the timestamp with the time set to midnight…

[image] davebanthorpe: But since the timestamp from the date picker already has hours set (at 9:10 am), of course the output is then wrong. Are you injecting anything into the date picker? If an inject node is set to timestamp and you inject that into the date picker I think it will be set to…

HI sorry had been on a short vacation! OK - so nothing being injected. I have just created a basic flow with a date picker going to a debug. [ { "id": "7f86ea3e.47f1a4", "type": "tab", "label": "Flow 4" }, { "id": "496ddd9e.1fb564", "type": "ui_date_picker", "z": "7f86ea3e.47f1a4", "name…

Unfortunately your flow isn't currently importable.Please read the following post How to share code or flow json and then edit the above message.

[ { "id": "496ddd9e.1fb564", "type": "ui_date_picker", "z": "7f86ea3e.47f1a4", "name": "", "label": "date", "group": "d9f24c8.aec10b", "order": 0, "width": 0, "height": 0, "passthru": true, "topic": "", …

If you add a function node with msg.payload = new Date(msg.payload) return msg; then for me when I select a date it is providing that date but setting the time to the time the node was deployed, or first displayed, or something like that. I would have thought that was at least a deficiency if not…

ok that makes sense - could not understand why the time was being set as would have thought it should have been set to midnight on the date selected. As you say, not ideal but not necessarily a bug.

Colin, can you explain how to achieve "clearing the time of day" from the datepicker payload? The only way I can think to do that is to extract the time in the payload in hours,mins,secs.ms, converting it all to milliseconds and then subtract it. Is there an easier way? I'm still learning and proba…

Have a look at the docs for the Date object ( https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp ) and you will see functions to set the hours, mins etc. You can call those to clear the relevant parts.

I think I've figured it out, and in the process learned a lot more about moving between timestamps and time-strings and extracting the time/date components. Here's a summary of what I found: I compared the output from the datepicker UI to the output from a form UI with a Date. The Picker adds the …

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Could you export your flow and attach it to a reply - see this thread for instructions

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Date Picker adding odd time

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