Charging elapsed time display is incorrect due to time zone issues

[sandeen]

When RAPI tells me elapsed time is 1144s, the HTML display tells me "18:19:04" instead of the correct 00:19:04. This is because of time zone issues apparently, and the way that elapsed time is handled:

self.elapsedNow(new Date((openevse.status.elapsed() * 1000) + ((new Date()) - self.elapsedLocal())));

I can't quite tell what this is trying to do, to be honest... but the 18 hours above seems to be because I am at GMT-6:00, so 00 hours GMT is 18H in my time zone.

Would using new Date(0,0,0,0,0,1144,0) give the right answer for an elapsed time, which should not care about time zones? I admit I get confused w/ javascript time, browser time, time zones, and the like.

[glynhudson]

Thanks for reporting. I tired setting my PC's time to -6hrs but I'm unable to replicate. Please could you post the output of

http://openevse.local/status

[sandeen]

{"mode":"STA","wifi_client_connected":1,"srssi":-83,"ipaddress":"10.0.0.103","emoncms_connected":1,"packets_sent":39772,"packets_success":37285,"mqtt_connected":1,"ohm_hour":"NotConnected","free_heap":23144,"comm_sent":594703,"comm_success":594666,"amp":0,"pilot":24,"temp1":157,"temp2":0,"temp3":230,"state":1,"elapsed":13853,"wattsec":31999214,"watthour":1006230,"gfcicount":0,"nogndcount":0,"stuckcount":0,"divertmode":1}

[sandeen]

(hm, weird that divertmode:1 but the slider is off?)

[glynhudson]

Thanks, I can see the issue.

Divertmode 1 is means normal charge. While divert mode 2 is 'eco' mode:

ESP8266_WiFi_v2.x/src/divert.cpp

Line 29 in bd14068

#define DIVERT_MODE_NORMAL 1

[sandeen]

Oops sorry. Base-0 brain here ;)

[sandeen]

Sorry - after an update to 2.7.0 and a restart, now I don't see it. Somehow I had missed this change:

-    return addZero(dt.getHours())+":"+addZero(dt.getMinutes())+":"+addZero(dt.getSeconds());
+    return addZero(dt.getUTCHours())+":"+addZero(dt.getMinutes())+":"+addZero(dt.getSeconds());

which was kinda buried in commit bf14d0f RTC detect complete

[glynhudson]

@sandeen this issue should be now fixed in a better way in the latest version V2.7.1. Please could you test and confirm. Thank you

https://github.com/OpenEVSE/ESP8266_WiFi_v2.x/releases/tag/2.7.1

[sandeen]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot soon; I'm recently having a strange problem where I cannot reach the web interface or even ping the device after it's been up for a while, but mqtt messages are still sent/received... I'll need to reset it to get the new firmware image on it.