I travel away from my home very often, but keep a close eye on the HA system while away. One thing that bugs me is that because I’m in a different time zone to the home where HA is running that everything that Im seeing on the Phone or PC browser at the away location is based on the machines (client) local time. So then I have to add or subtract the time difference.
I would like to know if there is a way to avoid this and always see the HA instance in the actual Home location time? It would be great if in the Configurations/general settings that an option to “Use HA instalation time zone for viewing” would be available.
I checked the Android app settings under the user name and there is a “Time Format” options but all are related to the device local time and not the HA instalation time.
I was getting excited that there was a fix! But doesnt look like there is currently. I do hope the developers of the phone aps could at least do someting about it as an option in the settings, to me that would seem fairly straight forward…but may be not!
ALso as any client is logging in to the Home Assistant server to access the data, I would have thought it could be an option to use the HA instalation site time zone, again fairly easily.
@balloob How likely do you think this “feature” request is being looked at from the HA developers team and do you think they might impliment any changes?
Sorry my bad. I wasnt meaning as anything other than to inform that this is something I think affects a lot of people so would be a great addition if possible.
This was fixed some time ago. The setting is located in: SIDE MENUE / PROFILE / USER SETTINS
Then change the “Time Zone” to “Use server time zone” from the drop down.
This works for UI elements that are rendered dynamically. However, I have notifications coming from HA where I want the message to include the time an event was triggered based on the time zone of the client. There is a sensor on the client called ‘sensor.[mobile_device_name].current_time_zone’, which returns values such as ‘British Summer Time’ and ‘Pacific Daylight Time’, but I can’t figure out how to use this to adjust a template to reflect the client’s local time. Is there a function to specify the timezone you want the timestamp to be in? And if there is, is there a lookup table that knows what offset ‘British Summer Time’ is?
The key is that the automation has to know who it is sending the notification to in order to determine their timezone (i.e. which sensor to use), but that’s fine for me because I’m the only one who needs to see HA notifications when I’m not at home.
