Dashboard balance warning timestamp UTC JavaScript

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When I setup the insifficient blanace alerts, it semes to be expecting a UTC timestamp to display the “Last Updated” string, but then the local time conversion isn’t happening. JavaScript that was broken or went missing? Anyone else using this feature?

Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone
'America/New_York'

JSON
{"version":1,"timestamp":1768249698,"config":...

Renders in the browser as

<time datetime="2026-01-12T20:22:18Z" data-local="time" data-format="%Y/%m/%d at %l:%M%p">2026/01/12 at  8:22PM</time>
2

That HTML renders server side. I.e., in ruby, not on the client side in javascript. Is your sever’s localtime UTC?

3

Nope and I’ve never noticed it elsewhere on the dashboard. Job session card timestamps show EST.

$ date
Mon Jan 12 19:07:14 EST 2026

$ ruby -e 'puts Time.now;'
2026-01-12 19:10:05 -0500
4

OK - did you supply your own localization for balance_reload_message_html?

5

Yes, I’ve been modifying the localization for all four balance_ values. I just tested removing all of the customizations and restarting the dashboard, and it still seems to be appearing in UTC.

<time datetime="2026-01-13T14:50:29Z" data-local="time" data-format="%Y/%m/%d at %l:%M%p">2026/01/13 at  2:50PM</time>
6

OK - looking at the gem’s documentation this is expected for it to be UTC. Apparently we’re supposed to translate it on the client side to a different time zone.

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7

Yeah, it seemed like there was some kind of JavaScript component missing to it. Any reason not to do this in server-side in Ruby, similar to the session cards?

On a somewhat related note, I’m finding it difficult to get the actual alert text formatting customized in a way that is useful to match our accounting system. Seems like it would be easier if there was just a single html localization field that I could use with the variable tokens.

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You can override any page - so if you wanted you could provide a different partial for _insufficient_balance_resource.html.erb.

My guess is it wasn’[quote=“hansen-m, post:7, topic:4705”]
Any reason not to do this in server-side in Ruby, similar to the session cards?
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It is done server side, but my guess is is that it was just done and we just never realized it was UTC.

9

I ended up adding this partial and just omitting the local_time call.

<div class="alert-heading h4">
  <%= t('dashboard.balance_warning_prefix_html', units_balance: balance.units_balance, unit: balance.unit) %>
  <strong><%= balance.project_type %> <%= balance.balance_object %></strong>
</div>
<p><%= balance.to_s %>. <%= t('dashboard.balance_additional_message', balanace_units: balance.balanace_units, unit: balance.unit) %></p>
<p class="text-muted d-none d-md-block">
  <%= t('dashboard.balance_reload_message_html', last_update: balance.updated_at.getlocal.strftime('%Y/%m/%d at %l:%M%p')).html_safe %>
</p>
10

Thanks for the reminder on this. I’ve created this ticket upstream to change it from UTC on our side.