fix(web): verify the onboarding timezone step, don't compare it to the default

The Getting Started card's timezone step ticked when the saved timezone
differed from the value config.template.json ships (America/New_York),
OR-ed with the saved city differing from Tampa. Both halves were wrong.

"Differs from the default" answers "did somebody edit this?", but what the
checklist needs to know is whether the value is right. A user genuinely in
America/New_York could never satisfy it, so the card nagged forever with
four of five steps done -- the case that prompted this, on a panel whose
timezone was correct all along.

The city half was worse than useless: the saved city says nothing about
whether the timezone is set, and because the two were OR-ed, saving a city
ticked the step off with the timezone still wrong. That is the direction
that actually breaks displays, since event times then render in the wrong
zone.

The browser already knows its own zone, so compare against that. No new
persisted state, no network, and it catches the reverse case the old test
got backwards: a panel still set to the old zone after a move now stays
unticked, where before it ticked the moment the value stopped being the
default. Zones are compared by the wall-clock time they produce for one
instant rather than by identifier, so aliases (Asia/Calcutta vs
Asia/Kolkata, Europe/Kiev vs Europe/Kyiv) don't read as a mismatch. When
they genuinely differ the step names the browser's zone, so an unticked box
says why. Configs with no timezone, an unparseable zone, or a browser
without Intl leave the step open for the existing manual tick.

The step still deep-links to the General tab, and the location value stays
visible in its label -- it just no longer votes on whether the timezone is
configured.

Tests render the partial across configured zones and both cities: the step
never pre-ticks server-side, carries the configured zone for the client to
check, is unmoved by the city, and the panel-size step still resolves
server-side. Reverting the template fails 9 of the 11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
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ChuckBuilds
2026-08-17 11:36:08 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 08265c1135
commit 2f64dbc48c
2 changed files with 217 additions and 6 deletions
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@
<!-- Getting Started checklist: non-gating, dismissible (localStorage), items
auto-check from existing config/endpoints — no new persisted state.
Known heuristic limits (acceptable, disclosed): values left at legitimate
defaults (e.g. a user actually in Tampa) read as "not done". -->
The timezone step is verified against the browser's own zone rather than
compared to the shipped default; see the data-check="timezone" block below
for why. -->
{% set _hw = main_config.display.hardware if main_config and main_config.display else {} %}
{% set _hw_done = (_hw.rows or 0) > 0 and (_hw.cols or 0) > 0 and (_hw.chain_length or 0) > 0 %}
{% set _loc = main_config.location if main_config and main_config.location else {} %}
{% set _loc_done = (main_config.timezone and main_config.timezone != 'America/New_York')
or (_loc.city and _loc.city != 'Tampa') %}
{% set _tz = (main_config.timezone if main_config else '') or '' %}
<div id="getting-started-card" class="bg-blue-50 border border-blue-200 rounded-lg p-4 mb-4" style="display:none" role="region" aria-label="Getting started checklist">
<div class="flex items-start justify-between">
<div class="flex-1">
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@
<ul class="space-y-1 text-sm" id="getting-started-items">
<li><button type="button" class="gs-item text-left w-full" data-done="{{ '1' if _hw_done else '0' }}" data-tab="display">
<i class="far fa-square mr-2"></i>Set your panel size (Display tab)</button></li>
<li><button type="button" class="gs-item text-left w-full" data-done="{{ '1' if _loc_done else '0' }}" data-tab="general">
<i class="far fa-square mr-2"></i>Set your timezone and location (General tab)</button></li>
<li><button type="button" class="gs-item text-left w-full" data-done="0" data-check="timezone" data-tz="{{ _tz }}" data-tab="general">
<i class="far fa-square mr-2"></i>Set your timezone{% if _tz %} — currently {{ _tz }}{% if _loc.city %}, {{ _loc.city }}{% endif %}{% endif %} (General tab)<span data-gs-tz-note class="text-xs"></span></button></li>
<li><button type="button" class="gs-item text-left w-full" data-done="0" data-check="installed" data-tab="plugins">
<i class="far fa-square mr-2"></i>Install a plugin from the Plugin Store</button></li>
<li><button type="button" class="gs-item text-left w-full" data-done="0" data-check="enabled" data-tab="plugins">
@@ -165,6 +165,65 @@
});
maybeAutoHide();
// Timezone: verified against the browser's own zone.
//
// This step used to tick when the saved timezone differed from the value
// config.template.json ships (America/New_York), with the saved city
// OR-ed in. Two things were wrong with that. "Differs from the default"
// answers "did somebody edit this?", but what the checklist needs to know
// is whether the value is RIGHT — so anyone who genuinely lives in the
// default zone could never satisfy it and the card nagged forever. And
// the city has no bearing on whether the timezone is set: because the two
// were OR-ed, saving a city ticked the step off with the timezone still
// wrong, which is the direction that actually breaks displays (event
// times render in the wrong zone).
//
// The browser already knows its zone, so compare against that: no new
// persisted state, no network, and it catches the reverse case too — a
// panel still set to the old zone after a move now stays unticked, where
// the old test ticked it the moment the value stopped being the default.
function sameZone(a, b) {
if (a === b) return true;
// Compare the wall-clock time each zone yields for one instant, not
// the identifiers: aliases (Asia/Calcutta vs Asia/Kolkata,
// Europe/Kiev vs Europe/Kyiv) name one zone and must not read as a
// mismatch.
try {
var now = new Date();
var stamp = function (tz) {
return new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', {
timeZone: tz, dateStyle: 'short', timeStyle: 'short'
}).format(now);
};
return stamp(a) === stamp(b);
} catch (e) {
// An unparseable zone in the config is worth surfacing, not hiding.
return false;
}
}
(function () {
var tzBtn = card.querySelector('[data-check="timezone"]');
if (!tzBtn) return;
var configured = tzBtn.dataset.tz || '';
if (!configured) return; // nothing saved yet: leave it open
var local = '';
try {
local = (Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone) || '';
} catch (e) {
return; // no Intl: leave it to the manual tick
}
if (!local) return;
if (sameZone(configured, local)) {
markDone(tzBtn);
return;
}
// Unticked on its own says "wrong" without saying why; name the zone
// the browser is in so the step is actionable.
var note = tzBtn.querySelector('[data-gs-tz-note]');
if (note) note.textContent = ' — this browser is in ' + local;
}());
// Plugin-derived states from the existing installed-plugins endpoint.
fetch('/api/v3/plugins/installed')
.then(function (r) { return r.json(); })