Bug DateTime.Now in WebGL Build

Hi all,

I'm having an issue regarding DateTime.Now function.

In my editor project, the function works properly and it returns the correct local time.

However, in my WebGL build, which is hosted on aws, DateTime.Now returns 1 hour earlier than my local time, for some reasons.

Why don't it read my local machine time? It is something that depends on the host server location? (Don't think so since the application is still running on my browser)
Of course I can hard-code a "+1" hour in the function but I'd like to understand why and if maybe it is something related to daylight saving time hours?

 

I think browsers can have their own timezone setting. It should default to your current locale but perhaps that isn't set correctly, or manually overriding in the browser?

In any case, do test WebGL apps with all common browsers. Especially if you run into an odd issue it's best practice to first confirm whether this appears only in one or some browsers. If so, it's a browser-specific issue. If all browsers exhibit the same behaviour, it's more likely an issue with the app.

 

I tried it with Chrome and Edge and both of them seems to have the same error.

At the same time, I tried to run a simple javascript script in the browser console where I invoke Date() and the result is correct in this case, it reports my correct time (GMT +2) in this case, if that could count somehow.

 

If you call DateTime.UtcNow() on both environments, do they both return the same time (which they should)?

 

Yes, they both returns the same time with UtcNow.