# Topic timer has timezone issues
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** topic-timers
**Created:** [November 30, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110 "2017-11-30T18:59:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/1 "2017-11-30T18:59:43Z")
Topic timers seem to be off today. Setting a topic timer for “Later Today” (6 PM) should set a timer for 4 hours. It looks good when being set, but after the timer is set for 9 hours, or 11 PM. ~~@sam is this what you were looking at yesterday in regards to “last day of the month”? @j.jaffeux is this related to select-kit?~~ Looks like @eviltrout put in [a fix](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/23ee3047bfc32d5a6d72ec699db8e0d5cc00b466). Doesn’t look like it’s working
[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/8/28060d096434b7fdbd1b1cb4a76bdbc775e88535.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/8/28060d096434b7fdbd1b1cb4a76bdbc775e88535.mp4)
Edit: This does not just affect later today. Even manually setting a topic timer is off. In my case it’s adding 5 hours, so setting a topic timer for Dec 1, 12:45 PM ends up being set for Dec 1, 5:45 PM. Perhaps we have an issue with local vs server time? I’m -5 UTC.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/2 "2017-12-01T07:58:45Z")
Can you repro @j.jaffeux? This used to work, yes? So maybe the shared component change is somehow causing the issue?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/3 "2017-12-01T07:59:52Z")
All the logic of dates has been untouched, so I doubt it, but will investigate as select-kit being involved somehow is the most probable cause.
What could happen is some state change of `select-kit` not being propagated correctly. It doesnt look like it’s the case here though…
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/4 "2017-12-01T08:13:37Z")
Actually I can’t reproduce.
“Later today” says “6pm” and then shows “This topic will automatically close in 9 hours.” given it’s 9am where I am, it’s expected.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/5 "2017-12-01T14:47:52Z")
_For reference, it’s currently 9:45 AM local time,_
I can still reproduce. In the topic timer “popup” everything looks OK. Selecting later today, 6 PM correctly says “8 hours” in the popup.
However, once I click Set Timer the text displayed below the topic now says 13 hours.
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I have the same issue for other “times”. Here’s a manually selected time 1 hour ahead:
And here’s what I see after I set it:
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/6 "2017-12-01T14:52:46Z")
Thx for the more detailed answer, I will look more closely, might a formating issue, once again this is weird as it’s displaying correctly in the edit-topic-timer component 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/7 "2017-12-01T14:58:42Z")
This was reported as a bug by a big customer of ours recently. They’d use the dropdown (in admin / suspend) to suspend a user until the next day at 6pm, but immediately after saving it the date was wrong. My fix was to include the timezone `Z` in the date format and it seemed to work.
I’d assumed it was a regression with select-box-kit but I did not confirm that, and now I’m wondering if my fix broke it elsewhere?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/8 "2017-12-01T14:59:47Z")
Can you point me the commit and the initial bug report? I will try to revert it and add tests
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/9 "2017-12-01T15:00:31Z")
Here’s the commit for the fix. Not sure where the original report is.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/23ee3047bfc32d5a6d72ec699db8e0d5cc00b466](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/23ee3047bfc32d5a6d72ec699db8e0d5cc00b466)
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/10 "2017-12-01T15:08:26Z")
ok ok finishing something about polls and I will investigate all of this.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/12 "2017-12-05T15:18:43Z")
I have submitted a PR for this issue, if you are interested in, there are more details in the PR description.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5398](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5398)
Fix has been double checked and looks good!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-has-timezone-issues/75110/17 "2017-12-07T23:21:16Z")