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Datepicker bug - Out of the box functionality from RAD Tool #11016


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jtallon created

What is your product version? 10.2.0

What is your product type (Angular or MVC)?Angular

What is product framework type (.net framework or .net core)? .net core

RAD Power tool version 3.1.1


Hi,

Recreation steps:

I created a new entity with a single property (DateTime) using the RAD Power tool. I then picked 1st Jan 1970 as the date when creating the new entity with the UI generated by the RAD Power tool. The date is saved incorrectly as "1969-12-31 23:00:00.0000000" in the database.

I tried the same with 1st Jan 1971 and it saved incorrectly as "1970-12-31 23:00:00.0000000" in the database.

Then I tried 1st Jan 2022 and it saved correctly as "2022-01-01 00:00:00.0000000"

Are you aware of this bug and how it may be fixed?

Though debugging I can see that the fault lies in the UI , the API is receiving the wrong date through the REST call.


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    jtallon created

    Also, this is not limited to the first date of the month.

    For example, i picked 11th March 1971 and it saved as "1971-03-10 23:00:00.0000000" in the database.

    It also renders incorrectly in the UI

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    ismcagdas created
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    Hi @jtallon

    It seems like your dates are saved as UTC. Could you check in your project to see if you configured Clock.Provider ? You can search for "Clock.Provider" in all *.cs files in your solution.

    Thanks,

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    jtallon created

    Hi, It doesn't look like we've configured Clock.Provider in the API project. I've searched in all .cs files for "Clock.Provider", Do we need to configure clock provider?
    Thanks

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    jtallon created

    I see some documation here; https://aspnetboilerplate.com/Pages/Documents/Timing I will try setting clock provider and retest.

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    ismcagdas created
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    Hi @jtallon, Thanks :)

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    jtallon created

    Hi @ismcagdas, would it make sense that this bug is only affecting some date ranges if the clock provider was incorrectly set? It doesn't make sense to me.

    I set the clock provider in webcoremodule.cs in pre initialize method using this line of code, is this the correct way to do it?

    Clock.Provider = ClockProviders.Utc;

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    jtallon created

    Hi , I've seen this bug replicated on another project also (v9.0.1) specifically around the dates 19 Feb 1968 -> 31st Oct 1971.

    The bug doesn't manifest itself on later dates.

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    ismcagdas created
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    Hi @jtallon

    So, do you get correct date for specific date value ? I haven't faced such case before. Could you share a sample date with me which works correctly ?

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    jtallon created

    Hi,

    For example, i pick 10th October 1970 - Saved in database as "1970-10-10 00:00:00.0000000" - Correct

    I pick 2nd February 1970 - Saved in database as "1970-02-01 23:00:00.0000000" - Incorrect - 1 hour off

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    jtallon created

    More information,

    The TimeOfDay property on the DateTime model property is "23:00" for the incorrect date (2 Feb 1970)

    but "00:00" for the correct date

    When I set a breakpoint at the entry point of the AppService

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    jtallon created

    Not only that, the "Date" portion of the DateTime object is also incorrect.

    2/1/1970 in first screenshot - where I picked 2/2/1970 using the ngx-datepicker angular component (incorrect)

    10/10/1970 in second screenshot - I picked 10/10/1970 using the component (correct)

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    ismcagdas created
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    Hi,

    Could you execute abp.timing.timeZoneInfo.iana in the browser console when you login to your Angular app and share its result with me ?

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    jtallon created

    Hi, this is the result when execute that:

    We haven't specified a clock provider in the dotnet core API project so assuming it's using the unspecifiedclockprovider

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    jtallon created

    I just downloaded a fresh project ( v10.2 )from the ASPNetZero website and checked the demo ui components datepicker. See issue below when i click submit: I selected 2 Feb 1970 but posted value is 1 Feb 1970

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    jtallon created

    Ok, from what I can see I needed to set the Clock Provider in PreInitialize method of the Core web module.

    That then set the "kind" portion of the datetime object in the backend and it's now behaving as expected.

    I'm not sure why the angular client to Etc/UTC as a default?

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    jtallon created

    Posting this for the next person that comes across this issue.

    Our dotnet backend was treating the DateTime object kind as local

    and the abp.timing.timeZoneInfo.iana was set to Etc/UTC

    This missmatch seems to have caused the issue.

    Adding Clock.Provider = ClockProviders.Utc; to the PreInitialize() method of our WebCoreModule.cs file was the fix to match Angular App and API.

    Kind updated to Utc:

    @ismcagdas do you know why the abp.timing.timeZoneInfo would have been set to Etc/UTC?

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    ismcagdas created
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    Hi @jtallon

    As far as I remember, if you don't set Clock.Provider = ClockProviders.Utc; the value of abp.clock.provider.supportsMultipleTimezone on the client side should be false. In that case, timezone info shouldn't be used by AspNet Zero.

    If setting Clock.Provider = ClockProviders.Utc; works for you, you can continue like that. I will check this problem in the default project.

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    jtallon created

    Thanks

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    ismcagdas created
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    jtallon created

    Thanks for this @ismcagdas , If we were to integrate the fix into our own application , would it be the changes made to AppPreBootstrap.ts ?