Time one hour less

Dear All

Im sending some data and read them with phone app made with app inventor. Everything works nice except one thing which is not big but let me ask. Looking at the field chart date and time are exactly as send but when I read them using field created_at time is allways one hour less then the right one like on the chart is there a way to read this right or to do some math!?

Best regards and thank you

Answer 1

[Vinod]

What is the time zone of your account? You can log in to ThingSpeak and go to the 'My Profile' and see it.

[Sean de Wolski]

And daylight savings happened last week

[Dejan Milosevic]

Yes true we will see how it will be then

[Dejan Milosevic]

I set the time zone to +1 but reading is the same always minus one hour compering from the chart value

[Vinod]

What are you setting the timezone parameter in your GET request? See documentation here.

Can you post the exact GET request you are making? Please do not post the API key so it remains private.

[Dejan Milosevic]

Method is get

https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/XXXXXX/feeds/last.json?api_key=XXXXXX

I have tested timezone command before you medtioned it but the same

I used timezone%2Europe/Belgrade I get the same result if it shuld be 10:32 it will read 09:32

[Vinod]

I see that the time difference between Belgrade and UTC is 1 hour. So, if you have the API call correct, you will see a 1 hour difference between the response with the timezone parameter and without it.

Here's the call to retrieve the data in UTC:

https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/9/feeds/last.json

Note the "created_at". Now, apply the timezone parameter and note the "created_at"; Exactly 1 hour apart, as expected.

https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/9/feeds/last.json?timezone=Europe/Belgrade

[Dejan Milosevic]

Dear Vinod

Solved with timezone=Europe/Belgrade Why in tutorial you put timezone%2America/New_York instead of timezone=America/New_York

[Christopher Stapels]

EDITED

It should read %2F, to be URL endcoded. The '/' character gets written as %2F. I checked the doc page, it is correct, you missed the 'F'.

[Dejan Milosevic]

Thank you again for your effort