Chats are showing wrong current time of the user chatting with

[m-natarajan]

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Version Number: 1.4.81-5
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: n
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @RachCHopkins
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1717991929286819

Action Performed:

Precondition : user A and user B are in different timezones

1. User A sent a message to user B
2. Observe the timestamp of the chat as user B

Expected Result:

Should show the time of user A

Actual Result:

Showing the user B time in PST, after switching to another chat and coming back shows correct time

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @NikkiWines (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @CortneyOfstad (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

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[NikkiWines]

I'm not able to reliably reproduce, nor is @luacmartins from this thread.

[RachCHopkins]

@NikkiWines I'm finding for me the Social keeps switching to PST. I wonder if changing your timezone for a week might surface it?

[NikkiWines]

@RachCHopkins is this happening on staging only or staging and production? I'll test by modifying my own timezone now

[NikkiWines]

Not a deploy blocker - reproducible on prod for a while now

[bernhardoj]

The pusher always sends the LA timezone data to the user when receiving the message.

[tgolen]

I see it coming from the response to AddComment, so I think this is a backend issue.

I'm not sure exactly what it takes to reproduce it, but I've had it happen twice today. If I go into my settings, the timezone is correct for me, and then when I return to the chat, the timestamps are correct again.

After a little bit of chatting, the timestamps then revert to PST.

[NikkiWines]

Fairly certain this issue is a dupe of #43032, which shows almost identical behavior. I think we should close this one out in favor of that one.

cc: @MonilBhavsar since you've been able to reproduce this bug.

[MonilBhavsar]

Feel free to. There are three issues now, I'll go ahead and remove "Needs reproduction" label on the other issue 😆