Hi all, Ive been playing with node red for a while to set up to home automation. Its all going well and is up and running but I noticed this morning things happening at an unexpected time and I found this is due to the time in node red not being the same time zone as the raspberry pi that its runnin…

So currently in the UK there is British Summer Time. So the time locale is 9 something and the Zulu time (UTC/GMT) is 8 something. (the Z at the end indicates it is UTC) What did you expect to see?

I worked out that that was the issue, but I dont know how to set up the zone correctly in node red. I thought it would take the time from the pi itself but the time in the pi is correct. If I take a now timestamp from inside node red and make a date object out of it, its an hour behind. How do I c…

What makes you think it is wrong? The two times you posted are the same time, 9:28 local time and 8:28 UTC are just different ways of displaying the same time.

node red thinks its an hour earlier than it is, so the schedule using this time starts and stops an hour earlier than it is set to.

I think I have misunderstood the timestamp, it is a time since the start of the epoch, so that wont change based on locale. I think thats where Im getting confused. Im looking at a representation of that time based on locale and seeing the difference but it isnt incorrect. I want the to use the loc…

What do you want to do with the time?

Its going into a schedule function to set an occupancy state. I have worked around it now. Ive checked the Date object for a timezone offset, if it exists it will offset the schedule. This is all working by the look of things. I'm using schedex module which has offsets available to modify. I have i…

[image] steven_191: I'm using schedex module The schedex node (I presume you mean node-red-contrib-schedex) should know about the local time zone and any times you enter in the config are expected to be in local time, if it isn't then something odd is going on. Are you sure the time on the p…

It shows the correct local time in BST. I rememeber being very thorough to make sure this was correct before I started using node red, knowing that the time was going to be a part of what I wanted to use.

What exactly does date show and what is the problem you are having with the schedex node? Export a mini flow here showing the problem if possible. [Edit] Also what version of nodejs are you using? Run node -v to find out. In fact if you post the output you get when you start node red in a termi…

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hello my friend can i ask you how did you get time and date to a text node using a function node when working on raspberry pi ? thanks.

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