"today" calculated relative to UTC rather than system time

[MatiasWettstein]

Can we define the default time zone for the calendar?

For example, in the calendar, I have the "today" part, but in my case, I need to set the default TZ at UTC-3, because it detects the next day at 9:00 PM of the current day.

Is this something that is planned to be implemented into cally?

Thanks!

[WickyNilliams]

Just to be sure what you are saying: you are seeing the css part today being applied to the wrong date?

If so, I think this is a bug and should be fixed, rather than exposing some timezone property

[MatiasWettstein]

Yes, for example in my case I'm in the UTC-3 zone and when I use the calendar after 9 PM the CSS part today indicates the next day, I assume it is because it detects the 00:00 of the next day.

[WickyNilliams]

Got it! Sounds like a bug then. I think it's calculating today based on UTC time. I can change this to make the calculation relative to system time instead.

[gavrichards]

We would love to see this change. We have users all over the world, so showing today's date in UTC will confuse many of them. What would be ideal is if it defaulted to the user's time zone, but there was a way of passing in a time zone as an attribute to use instead, should we wish to force the calendar to act as though it's in a defined time zone.

[gavrichards]

May I ask if there's any likelihood of this being addressed within the next few months?
Alternatively, would the maintainer accept a PR to resolve this?
It would be good to know if it's worth us investing our time in a PR, or forking, or waiting it out.
Thanks!

[WickyNilliams]

Apologies, I started a new job and my personal laptop died on me. Between the two I haven't had a great deal of time to work on Cally.

A PR is most definitely welcome! If you could limit it to just fixing the immediate bug for now. We can worry about configuration later.

[WickyNilliams]

@gavrichards I had some spare time, and the fix turned out to be simple (at least in my testing). Will release momentarily

[gavrichards]

Oh fantastic, thank you so much!

[WickyNilliams]

Try v0.7.2!

[gavrichards]

I can confirm it's working nicely, thank you again.

[WickyNilliams]

Glad to hear! Excuse the delay :)