# ❓questions
- k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:53 AMThe article publish start date is set to 8am (incorrect), the now, is correct utc time, which at the time was 9.48am - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:54 AMoh hang on, lemt me double check, I think my format is wrong - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:55 AMyeah, there we go - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:55 AMmy bad 🙂 - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:55 AMbig H, not small h for hour hehe - i
ifox
05/21/2021, 9:55 AMok good haha - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:55 AMthe fact remains however - it's not converting to UTC - i
ifox
05/21/2021, 9:56 AMright - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:56 AMIs there another configuration value I need to update? - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:57 AMwait a second... - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:57 AMCarbon doesn't convert to UTC automatically - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:57 AM🤦♂️ - i
ifox
05/21/2021, 9:57 AMthere shouldn't be, no - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 9:58 AMI was assuming the value was coming through to the server in UTC, I assume the datepicker isn't doing that, but laravel is? - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:00 AMNa, still not on it. Hmmm - d
domihagen
05/21/2021, 10:01 AMdon´t know if there is a difference, if you use ->isoFormat() instead of ->format() - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:01 AMIt's definitely not converting to UTC. - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:01 AMgoing straight into the database in aest - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:03 AMIt shoudl be going in as 10am - i
ifox
05/21/2021, 10:07 AMI could swear we had dealt with that but I see that this remains an issue. The frontend would need to send the client timezone or UTC offset for us to be able to convert to UTC before saving. - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:07 AMI think the issue is that the date/time picker isn't converting before it's sent to the server - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:07 AMCorrect - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:08 AMI had weird publishing errors on rathetimes.com and thought maybe I just wasn't entering dates properly, because I'd see on my date outputs at times that the publish time was in the future lol - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:08 AMI'll raise an issue, @User - i
ifox
05/21/2021, 10:08 AMyeah makes sense, sorry about that - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:09 AMAll good, I'll just have to wait on this feature until it's fixed. I am writing a browser push notification system and I need to ensure notifications only go out when articles are published, but I wasn't seeing it line up properly - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:10 AMWhat it also means is that it's not converting it back, either. - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:10 AMAs the values I'm entering are what I'm getting back. - k
Kirk Bushell
05/21/2021, 10:11 AMNote, I am referring specifically to the publish_start_date, so perhaps that's alittle different to the date picker in blocks? - i
ifox
05/21/2021, 10:14 AM