Satellite archive timestamp
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Re: ARCHIVE DATA (1 year)
I am concerned about what I am seeing on the satellite archive. When I try to navigate to a certain date, the calendar month that I choose does not match with the month in the timestamp above it. So I am not confident about which date the imagery is actually from. There is also an issue with the day of the week. Notice in my screenshot that I selected January 10, 2025. Windy is indicating that it was a Sunday, but the calendar says that January 2025 was actually on a Friday. Something is really messed up there! Less importantly, the animation arrow to the left does not seem to work properly in archive mode. If it is not possible to animate in archive mode, then the arrow should not be there. I am viewing on a Windows 11 laptop.
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I also noticed that the archive does not seem to extend beyond December 15, 2025. I couldn't get it to work any part of January. Is there is a one month gap between current and archived data? Or maybe the archive is only updated once a month?
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@ldwhite68 Hello, I will take a look at mentioned issues and let you know.
Regarding to the gap, there shouldn't be this issue and every passed day should be in our archive.
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@ldwhite68 Okay, can you let me know which browser did you try? I can't reproduce any of these issues you mentioned.
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@ldwhite68 Could you please test the behavior in the private tab without any addons or adjustments in the browser? We tried to replicate these issues on devices with Windows and MacOS and there is nothing at least similar to your issue on those.
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@Suty I am using Chrome. I just now updated Chrome to make sure that wasn't the issue. Version 144.0.7559.60 (Official Build) (64-bit). I tried opening an incognito tab like I think you were suggesting. But then it did not recognize my subscription.
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@ldwhite68 I am not sure if I understand, you were not able to login in the incognito tab?
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@Suty I tried again and was able to log in on the incognito tab. The archive seems to work properly there. I don't understand where the issue is with viewing it otherwise.
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@ldwhite68 It can be certain adjusted functionality in the standard browser. We have met some similar issues for example when user has auto-translation turned on in the browser.
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@Suty I think I found a clue where the problem comes from. I decided to try loading in Internet Explorer. At first I was happy that it was behaving properly. But when I changed my settings to use UTC instead of local time, the date got messed up again (with one timestamp a month off from the other).
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By the way, the correct date for this image should be Wednesday September 10.
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@ldwhite68 Okay, then UTC option in our app. I will check it on our side.
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@ldwhite68 May I ask from which location you access Windy?
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@Suty Do you which country I am in? Currently I am in the United States. My time zone is Central (Chicago). One of the reasons that I prefer to use UTC is because it is not clear within Windy whether "LT" refers to the local time on my laptop or the local time for the center of the view.
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@ldwhite68 Regarding to the local time, we mean the local time of the device.
Regarding to the issue, I will do my best to replicate it somehow and forward it to colleagues. I already tested UTC on my device and it was okay, but this can be related to your different location, since I access Windy from central Europe.
