How are time zones handled? I updated something at noon local but it is timestamped as 2009-07-16 11:00:33.
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timezones are from your twitter profile, so you will need to update it there and then logout and log back in to YFD
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I'm in NYC. I have Twitter set to GMT-5. My laptop is set to EDT and correctly shows 14:24 right now. At 12:00 local I twitted to yfd and yfd records it as 11:00.
I think there is an issue between Twitter and YFD. Is it perhaps Standard v. Daylight time?
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I second this problem.
pg
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More details:
In the time zone GMT-8:00 Pacific Time. Seems that the action logs are 3 hours off. So I recorded something at 9:50pm and it shows up at 12'50am.
Thanks for the service. I've just started using it and it's working well.
pg
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The same problem where. I'm in Copenhagen (GMT+1, and so is set in twitter account) but dates are recorded in New York time..
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mankoff, your timezone is showing (on twitter) as Quinto.
Others, you might want to make sure you set your time zone on Twitter via the settings page on Twitter. Then logout of your.flowingdata and then log back in.
Let me know if that works.
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In the Twitter interface my Timezone is set to: "(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)". Farther down I have the option to set it to "(GMT-05:00) Quito". It is *not* set to that value when viewed here: http://twitter.com/account/settings.
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Oh! Apologies you are right. My "mankoff" account is GMT-5 Eastern but my data account (mankofffoo, linked to YFD) was Quito for some reason.
While both "Eastern" and "Quito" are GMT-5, Quito does not have DST so it is an hour behind.
Thanks for helping me debug this.
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Hi, I found a bug in the code handling time zones. Please logout and lock back in to your.flowingdata and your time zone should be updated properly from Twitter.
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Hi, I've logged out and back in and I'm still not on the right timezone. Is there anything else I need to do?
pg
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@pgroth, timezone comes from your twitter profile, which you can change in twitter's settings. it looks like you haven't set your time zone yet.
update time zone on twitter, and then logout/login at your.flowingdata and it should be better :)
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@nathany, works now. I thought I had set that. Oh well, sorry about the bother. Thanks for the great work
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awesome. and no bother at all, pgroth. i'm happy to help
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I fear being another in the 'my time zone is set wrong' club, but:
I have double checked my Twitter/Settings/Account/TimeZone, which reads
(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
and I even logged in and logged out and it remains the same at this before and after.
Nevertheless, if I tweet an action without "at (time)" it records it as 3 hours ahead, ie Eastern time. Now, I've just returned from a few weeks on the East coast, so I assumed yfd was trying something fancier ... But to confuse the situation even more, sometimes when I was on the east coast, it would correctly log the time as Eastern, and sometimes as Pacific. Maybe my twitter account is nuts.I just retested again, and yfd is still logging entries as Eastern. Also, when I view your.flowingdata it lists all the times relative to Eastern time as well.
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@stantrack - what's your twitter username?
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I also have the ‘living in the future’ problem. Submitting via Twitter.com or the yfduploader iPhone app all times are an hour in the future in the Actions Log, unless I add “at 10am†etc. The times on the main your.flowingdata.com page show the correct ‘friendly’ times (ie “30 sec agoâ€). My timezone is Osaka (GMT+9), and there’s no daylight savings here.
I tried logging out and back in, no change. Interestingly I also tried changing to a different timezone in Twitter (Tokyo, which is also GMT +9) and logging out/in, and all my recent times shifted 1 hour earlier (good for incorrect times, bad for times specified using “at 10amâ€). Reverting back to Osaka and logging out/in reverts my times back to one hour fast unless the time was specified.
My twitter name is http://twitter.com/boblet
TIA
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@oli - these time zones sure are fickle. i'm looking into this.
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nathan,
thanks for the awesome work - this has already changed my life in numerous ways. You're right that the time zone issue is tricky. To add to the issue, here's my situation: I travel frequently across time zones, but use yfd to track time-related activities (e.g., "gnight"). If I'm not mistaken, there's currently no way to manage this cleanly - if I change my twitter time zone each time, it changes all my historical time stamps as well; if I don't, then the current time stamps are wrong. Am I missing something, and if not, can you put the ability track time across multiple time zones (e.g., gnight at 11pm EDT yesterday, 12am PDT today, average gnight time 11:30pm) go on the feature list? Many thanks.
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@anon - so someone had this dilemma too, but i can't find the thread since the search sucks on this forum.
anyways, i'm working on making timezones row-specific. that is, for each data point you tweet, YFD will associate it with the time zone you have in your twitter profile at the time you tweet (instead of the universal time zone).
coming soon...
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