Description
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)