>From a fellow PDT-er, here's the thread containing my workaround and the link to the still open ticket about this issue (hard to believe it's been an open ticket for nearly four years - clearly we PDT-ers need to both bulk up and recruit people more clever than I am!): https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/sameday$20cmari/tiddlywiki/28DxHYLt6-0/JF3k6FFOKwQJ cmari
On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 5:34:08 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > I think it's a bug. > > What it's doing is taking the string you gave it and appending zeros to > make it represent that date as a UTC date at the very start. Then it > converts that date into the local date and truncates the hours. > > Then it compares that date against the field date (stored as UTC) > converted to a local date truncated by hours. > > The error is at the very start. By turning your string into the UTC date > at the very start of the day BEFORE converting it into a local date, it has > effectively moved the comparison date BACK 7 hours. In this case, that > means the actual date is 7/19 local time. The UTC field date is still on > 7/20. > > The reason this error hasn't been noticed is because it works fine when > the conversion compares against a date field (the majority of use cases) > and rarely gives an error for anyone operating near GMT-0. > > I think the code needs to be altered to assume that the target date is a > local date (not UTC date) WHEN a short (non-field) date is used. > > -- Mark > > > On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 11:51:50 AM UTC-7, Jim Farrand wrote: >> >> >> I have recently created a tiddler, which has created timestamp: >> 20180720180051119. I would naively assume that the filter: >> >> [sameday:created[20180720]] >> >> would return this tiddler, but it doesn't. It is, however, returned by >> this filter: >> >> [sameday:created[20180721]] >> >> Is this just how sameday works, or do I have some sort of setup problem? >> If sameday works this way, I would have thought this might be mentioned in >> the documentation for that operator, so I suspect I have some issue >> specific to me. I'm currently in timezone PDT, whereas my "normal" >> timezone is BST, so I'm wondering if I have some confused configuration >> somewhere which is screwing things up. >> >> (I'm trying to create a journal template that includes the list of >> tiddlers created/modified on that day.) >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jim >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ed135961-d811-40a5-aed3-a7b0c4677592%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
