Timezone out of sync with configuration

[lmirel]

After installing the MorphingClock from Hary (works very fine) I was intrested in You project. It also works fine excluding to show the correct time. Date and the minutes of the clock are correct but not the hours. In my case /Germany/ it is showing always +7 hours from the correct time in Germany. Btw, the same bug happens with the SW "MorphingclockRemixRemix (KoljaS). I have no idea what is the problem. Change settings in Timezone are not relevant, nothing will change.

I have taken a printout from the monitor ( to have more information I have included informations from NTPClientLib. I'm not a programmer.

Configuration NodeMCU1.0, Flash size:4M(1M SPIFFS), CPU F=160MHz

10:35 I started the monitor
FM6126A - REG: 12
FM6126A - REG: 13
*WM: Adding parameter
*WM: timeZone
*WM: Adding parameter
*WM: military
*WM: Adding parameter
*WM: metric
*WM: Adding parameter
*WM: date_fmt
No Double Reset Detected
*WM:
*WM: AutoConnect
*WM: Connecting as wifi client...
*WM: Using last saved values, should be faster
*WM: Connection result:
*WM: 3
*WM: IP Address:
*WM: 192.168.179.25
timezone=1
military=Y
metric=Y
date-format=D.M.Y
WiFi connected, IP address: 192.168.179.25
NTP server 0 set to: pool.ntp.org
NTP time zone set to: 1, result: OK
--Set daylight OFF
Short sync interval set to 5
Long sync interval set to 1800
Time sync started
-- NTP Server hostname: pool.ntp.org
-- Transmit NTP Request
Sync frequency set low
No daylight
First sync! 17:35:06 20/03/2019

Succeccful NTP sync at 17:35:06 20/03/2019
Long sync interval set to 10
i:connecting to weather server.. connected.
w:unable to retrieve weather data
*WM: freeing allocated params!
display color range [0 .. 65535]
day mode brightness
showing the weather
!no weather data available
showing the date
Long sync interval set to 86400
i:connecting to weather server.. connected.
w:unable to retrieve weather data

Once a time it happened that the clock started after flashing the sketh with the time/Date: 08:00:03 01/01/1970 and after 10sec. it shows the correct time for a long long time...but after power off the new time is again +7 hours (false).

May be You have any idea
Thanks in advance

(Burkhard)

[burkadius]

Hi Mirel, thanks for the answer. I hope You will solve the problem.
Here is one remark from my side:

You wrote "The output from your console looks fine so the issue is not in the configuration, but it might be in the Time library or the NTP Library.
Anyhow, I need to debug this to track it down or change the time support entirely."

The "get time" solution for the "original Morphing Colck" is completely an other and works for me without any problems. May be You can take this one.
Burkhard

[lmirel]

Yes, I know that but I didn't want to have to handle that in my solution so I used external libraries.
I need to debug it and find out which library is the issue before reporting it to their respective owners.
It may be faster to go back to using the original NTP code but I still need to find time for it.

[burkadius]

Hi Mirel,
I think I have found a solution for my problem . It always seems to me, that the MC is a in the initialization phase a little bit overloaded . Therefore I installed a delay before "getWeather". There is a uncomment //delay (1500). I activated it and change it to (row 276) delay (10000). After that every thinks is working fine, the current time is correct and the weather information also.
Best regards
Burkhard

[lmirel]

Interesting.. that it works adding a delay.
Did you manage to fine-tune the delay? 10sec seems a bit much.

[burkadius]

Hi Imirel, no, I did not try to tune this delay. It happens only in the start up phase one time ( I think so). After this little change it alway synchronized without any problems. Burkhard

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[ThePapatech]

Sorry to come to this issue so late, but I am having the same issue. no matter what I set Timezone to in params it always shows 4 hours ahead. which is GMT. thank you for any insight.

[lmirel]

I’ve seen this a few times but couldn’t find the problem. it may come from the ntp lib but didn’t have time to investigate.
it usually works if I reset or do a power cycle.
did you try this to overcome the issue?
sorry about this

[ThePapatech]

I have tried power on/off, different timezone numbers, delay, ... a bunch of things. I have the original morphing clock sitting right next to this one and it works fine, and other than being off 4 hours they are in sync. I was thinking that maybe I could hardcode the timezone and see if that matters, but I don't think it should.

[lmirel]

you could try hardcoding it to see.
I used a different ntp lib than the original code..

[ThePapatech]

what timezone are you in? what time is it right now

[lmirel]

I’m CET so 20:25
I also use the timelib required by the ntplib so any one of these may have the issue

[ThePapatech]

put it into debug and saw the following which seems like the timezone isn't getting passed. Strange thing thought the other parameters are since it is showing F not C and time is not military

........success!
IP Address is: 192.168.1.98
timezone=
military=
metric=
date-format=
dst=
i:connecting to weather server.. connected.
weather:{"coord":{"lon":-71.06,"lat":42.36},"weather":[{"id":500,"main":"Rain","description":"light rain","icon":"10d"},{"id":600,"main":"Snow","description":"light snow","icon":"13d"},{"id":701,"main":"Mist","description":"mist","icon":"50d"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":35.22,"feels_like":21.16,"temp_min":32,"temp_max":39,"pressure":1030,"humidity":69},"visibility":2414,"wind":{"speed":17.22,"deg":120},"rain":{"1h":0.64},"clouds":{"all":90},"dt":1584991972,"sys":{"type":1,"id":3486,"country":"US","sunrise":1584960084,"sunset":1585004386},"timezone":-14400,"id":4930956,"name":"Boston","cod":200}
cond Rain
condM 4
temp: 35.22
temp min: 32
temp max: 39,"pressure":1030,"humidity":69
press 1030
humi 69}
sunset 1585004386
sunrise 1584960084
display color range [0 .. 65535]
showing the weather
temperature: 35F
temp min: 32
temp max: 39
weather conditions 4
!weather condition icon unknown, show: Rain
showing the date
Got NTP time: 19:33:01 23/03/2020
random weather reading at min 9 and 39
OTA update skip
time now: 1584991981
day mode brightness
showing the weather
temperature: 35F
temp min: 32
temp max: 39
weather conditions 4
!weather condition icon unknown, show: Rain
showing the date

[lmirel]

you might need to erase flash and reconfigure, to make sure.
btw, are you using the master branch or the ‘no-wm’ branch?

[ThePapatech]

I am using the no-wm branch

[ThePapatech]

could not get the reset to work to get to the wifi configuration.