IP-based time using io.receive_time() returning UTC

[kattni]

The AdafruitIO library does not provide the option to provide the tz parameter to specify timezone, which is the first thing IO looks for to return a time when using io.receive_time().

The second thing IO tries is "guessing" your timezone based on your IP address. This does not appear to be working; it is instead defaulting to UTC.

The final thing IO does is return UTC, which as said above, is happening regardless.

I tested it on a Feather ESP32-S3 TFT board, using CircuitPython 8.0.0-beta.4 and this library. I get UTC from io.receive_time(), every time.

cc: @brentru @lorennorman @jwcooper

That said, in my project code, I received a workaround for this issue from @jepler in the form of a class in my code. This really only helps if you want to make a workaround in this library, versus fixing the feature in IO itself. But I thought it was worth including either way.

class TZIO(IO_HTTP):
    def receive_time(self, tz='UTC'):
        """
        Returns a struct_time from the Adafruit IO Server based on the time zone
.
        https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/shared-bindings/time/__init__.html#time.struct_time
        """
        path = self._compose_path("integrations/time/struct.json?tz={}".format(tz))
        time_struct = self._get(path)
        return time.struct_time(
            (
                time_struct["year"],
                time_struct["mon"],
                time_struct["mday"],
                time_struct["hour"],
                time_struct["min"],
                time_struct["sec"],
                time_struct["wday"],
                time_struct["yday"],
                time_struct["isdst"],
            )
        )

Which is used when instantiating the io object as follows:

io = TZIO(AIO_USER, AIO_KEY, requests)

[kattni]

So..... I checked it again, and io.receive_time() is returning ET, which is accurate for me. Not sure what to make of that. It was definitely not working last Wednesday for myself, or Liz (which is to say it wasn't a me-issue).

I'm leaving this open in case it's an intermittent bug. Feel free to close it if you think it was a glitch.

[caternuson]

Possibly related?
https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?p=985703#p985703