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[Mario Arias <the.clone.master@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Problems with datetime fields and time zones are everywhere in Odoo...

They hit users in America and Asia/Africa harder , as our time zone
differences are bigger than for users in Europe...

As an example, take a user in GMT-6:00.

Create  a POS order on 2014/08/31  after 18:00 local time, the pos order
will have a database timestamp of next day:  2014/09/01...

Create  a POS order on 2014/09/30  after 18:00 local time, the pos order
will have a database timestamp of next day:  2014/10/01...

Then, if we go to POS order analysis, and break results by month,
timestamps get correct adjustment and show on right month.  So far so
good...


Then, if current date is somewhere in September, before  2014/09/30 18:00
local time, and we turn on current month filter, errors arise...
You will see the order from previous month and the one register in october
will be gone...

Even worse, if current date is 2014/09/30 18:01 or more, we will only see
the order with timestamp of october, and it will show with date of
september... !!


Why, because the filter is not adjusted to take into account the user time
zone... !!

Even more evident if your users ask to break data by day....  Daily sales
reports will never match with real sales... !!

In regular sales this is not a problem, because invoice documents have a
DATE (not DATETIME) so there is no room to adjustments, but in every other
document that have a full timestamp, this problem is present...


We could go on and try to open an Error Report for each, but I think this
deserves an integral solution, not patches as has been done so far...


I tried to locate the source to this, but this lays deep in the server
and/or web service, and I definitely don't know the code enough to propose
changes there...


S.A. and community  experts, please join this thread and help fix this
problem once and for all...


Regards,
-Mario