fix: Meeting scheduling timezone comparison bug#776
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When Claude provides a datetime like "2026-01-15T09:15:00" without timezone info, JavaScript's Date parses it as server local time (UTC). This caused Addie to incorrectly reject meeting times as "already passed" when users specified times in their local timezone. The fix compares times within the specified timezone context by: 1. Getting current time formatted in the target timezone 2. Comparing ISO strings directly (lexicographically sortable) This ensures "9:15 AM ET" is compared against "current time in ET", not UTC. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* fix: Meeting scheduling timezone comparison bug When Claude provides a datetime like "2026-01-15T09:15:00" without timezone info, JavaScript's Date parses it as server local time (UTC). This caused Addie to incorrectly reject meeting times as "already passed" when users specified times in their local timezone. The fix compares times within the specified timezone context by: 1. Getting current time formatted in the target timezone 2. Comparing ISO strings directly (lexicographically sortable) This ensures "9:15 AM ET" is compared against "current time in ET", not UTC. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: Add changeset for timezone fix --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* fix: Meeting scheduling timezone comparison bug When Claude provides a datetime like "2026-01-15T09:15:00" without timezone info, JavaScript's Date parses it as server local time (UTC). This caused Addie to incorrectly reject meeting times as "already passed" when users specified times in their local timezone. The fix compares times within the specified timezone context by: 1. Getting current time formatted in the target timezone 2. Comparing ISO strings directly (lexicographically sortable) This ensures "9:15 AM ET" is compared against "current time in ET", not UTC. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * chore: Add changeset for timezone fix --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Fixed Addie incorrectly rejecting meeting times as "already passed" when users specified times in their local timezone.
The bug: When Claude converts "9:15 AM ET" to ISO format like
"2026-01-15T09:15:00"(without timezone offset), JavaScript'sDateconstructor interprets this as server local time (UTC). So when a user asked for 9:15 AM ET (which is 2:15 PM UTC), the server thought they meant 9:15 AM UTC (4:15 AM ET) - which was already in the past.The fix: Compare times within the specified timezone context by:
This ensures "9:15 AM ET" is compared against "current time in ET", not UTC.
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