Api 1.2.2 LastUpdated filter time zone issue

cstrombe

I'm trying to figure out how to use the api and this filter and am confused by some time zone issues as far as I can tell. Here is the situation:

I upload a new image to an album at 4:29pm CST
I then do a smugmug.albums.get on the album, and the LastUpdated time returned is "2010-03-22 14:29:08", which would agree with the time I uploaded (this is the PST for my 4:29pm CST). That's all making sense. However, when I try to use the LastUpdated filter on the albums.get call, it seems like the LastUpdated parameter is off. Through trial and error I found that a LastUpdated value of 1269268148 returned the album, and if I go one second more, it does not return the album, so that is the cutoff that matches my upload. If I convert that epoch time to a readable time, it comes out to 14:29:08 GMT. So it seems like the LastUpdated filter is using the PST time value as a GMT time. In other words, the LastUpdated filter is off by 7 hours.

I'm no time zone expert, so maybe I'm missing something. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong, or if I am not interpreting these times correctly?

Thanks,
Chris

devbobo

epochs and timezone can get confusing...so typically I use this page for validation... http://www.epochconverter.com/

can you please get me the AlbumID of the Album in question, so I can take a look.

Cheers,

David

devbobo

yes, there was a bug, it's been fixed internally.

Thanks,

David

cstrombe

devbobo wrote:

yes, there was a bug, it's been fixed internally.

Thanks,

David

Wow, that's great, thanks David. I'll give it a try.

devbobo

cstrombe wrote:

Wow, that's great, thanks David. I'll give it a try.

sorry, the fix isn't live yet....but should go sometime this week.

cstrombe

devbobo wrote:

sorry, the fix isn't live yet....but should go sometime this week.

Ah, ok. Thanks for the update.