MAJOR TIME ISSUE uncovered?

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I’ve been trying to figure out why my Hello Home events (specifically Good Morning and Good Night) havent been firing (Good Morning) or have been firing way early (Good Night), and I THINK I’ve found a couple of MAJOR issues with SmartThings Time handling:

  1. If you set Good Morning to run “When Things Start Happening” between a certain time window (say 5-7AM), you may find that this does no longer run if you get up at 5am. The reason MAY BE because the time window was saved as 5-7AM Daylight Savings Time - and that time window WAS NOT corrected when the time changed. So it still waits until 5AM EDT (which is 6AM EST)…

  1. Similarly for Good Night - “When Things Quiet Down” after 10PM is recorded as 10PM EDT, which is an hour later than 10PM EST.

  2. To make matters worse, I found a CRAZY UI bug in the iOS app to boot: When setting times in a SmartApp, the time base used is NOT the time zone of the hub/devices, oh no-no - it’s the time zone WHERE YOU CURRENTLY ARE!!! So, in trying to fix this on my East Coast hubs from my hotel on the West Coast - all the times are OFF BY 3 HOURS!!!

Sorry for yelling, but these are just insane bugs to be dealing with…and to be fair, maybe it’s just me and I have screwed up SmartApps for some reason…so please - check for yourself. I found it easiest to use the IDE to figure out what times are actually being scheduled (by looking at the SmartApp parameters on my hubs)…

YMMV -

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Funny I’ve rebuilt my routines at least 20 times since the time change as they fail all the time and need to be rebuilt.

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Oh man, that explains why my smart lighting automations are firing 2 hours early after recently editing the times while in a different time zone!