Hey guys, I am trying to display a millisecond timestamp in perspective using the browser's local timezone. Despite this, I continue to have the gateway's timezone being used, even though I explicitly defined it to use the client's timezone. Is there anything I am missing here? timezone setting: …

The transform runs on the gateway so it cheerfully ignores the project setting. As far as I can tell, the Project time zone property only applies to components where the dates get formatted automatically. A good example is the Date Time Input component. If you were to feed your milliseconds into a b…

Huh, I was always under the assumption that component property bindings ran in the client scope and not the gateway scope.

It's Perspective, everything executes on the gateway scope. I really do wish the date functions would automatically take the project timezone into account or have a configurable time zone parameter.

Well I guess that makes sense. I could probably use the session TimeZoneID somehow to format the datetime into the correct timezone.

I obviously didn't dig hard enough. This came up once I refined my search slightly: [image] [IGN-6614]What is the best way to format a date (milliseconds) for a specified timezone with Ignition's python scripting Ignition Ah, I was overthinking things. SimpleDateFormat ex…

Changing Project Timezone to Client didn't seem to have any effect on the standard Perspective views when rendered on a browser page for me. Adding a Property Binding to the Session Props timeZoneId of this.props.device.timezone.id did change the presented time to the local timezone as set by the b…

Once we add a timezone argument to the scripting/expression functions, it should be "easy" for us to pass through a contextual timezone automatically, and for you to override it if you have some other purpose. I'll make a note on the existing internal ticket discussed in that other thread.

I found this article which seems helpful [image] Time Zones in Perspective Introduction This document provides guidance on how to support multiple time zones in Ignition 8.1.3 when using Perspective. A Perspective session can run with multiple different time zones simulta... …

Are the module imports not cached or something when the def runs? Do you say this because it's reimporting the module every time the function runs?

Perpective Client Timezones not being used when I have it set to do so

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pturmel November 7, 2023, 11:59pm 9

You really should not be doing imports in transforms (or any other defs where you can avoid it). Delegate to a project library utility script, like shown here: