Glide picks up the time from user devices (‘current time’) which is fair enough but annoying and causes issues in some cases. Use case: my telemedicine app has users and agents (video call) both are in different apps, but working on the same glide table (TestFlow) sometimes the user sets values, …

Maybe you’re already doing this, but one thought is if you have both the user and agent pushing a button or something around the same time, you could capture their local time and maybe some some math to calculate the difference to the nearest hour and use that difference to offset timer start time t…

Fortunately, I had two timestamps around the same time: user request video (e.g. 11:00) agent joins video (e.g. 11:03… or 12:03 or 09:03, etc) Problem fixed with two columns (with some help from this solution, and implementation courtesy of my son, Patrick - 17 years old, programming algorithms t…

BUT I do not always have two timestamps from both sides. I have a challenge to work out what to show agents … before they have interacted with the user. System time is the way to go - please @Mark :slight_smile:

It is driving me totally bonkers without system time. The things I want to do become brutally complex… and prone to error. It should not be too hard :wink: :slight_smile:

Agreed. Would be awesome to have the option to write timestamps in UTC time.

Exactly. A good use case to show why there’s a problem: User A is in Boston (ET) - they click and set a timestamp (ET) there is a computed column - ‘how many minutes has it been since user timestamp” - so comparing Now to timestamp 10 mins pass User A now sees 10 mins User B in San Fran - tim…

Right. Recorded timestamps are the issue. Any user with a UTC time that’s later than another user will appear to be interacting with the app in the future.

:slight_smile: I’ll grant that the way time is done is better than random…… as in ‘pick a number and I’ll make that the timestamp’…

BTW I am looking forward to seeing the Murphy Clock in action :slight_smile: @Darren_Murphy your sneak peek was intriguing :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

@Mark_Turrell Did you fix your problem with your GS timestamp and the user timestamp working together? I think I have a workaround and works very well (not very complex as well) Saludos

Just in case you missed my workaround solution… [image] Timestamp with your local time NOT user's time zone Community Resources Happy to share a trick if you want to track activity in your App, e.g. how many users are active in the last X hours then how many t…

System Time, please

Feature Requests

Jeff_Hager June 2, 2021, 3:28pm 20

Couldn’t wait 5 seconds?

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Set column - Time zone Ask for Help	8	707	March 26, 2021
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Timezone displaying incorrectly Ask for Help actions	6	1478	January 21, 2021
Timezone not captured in Date Time component Ask for Help	19	2178	January 6, 2023
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System Time, please

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