# Bug: Today is not the 15th

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/bug-today-is-not-the-15th/4640>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [December 14, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/bug-today-is-not-the-15th/4640 "2018-12-14T18:04:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/bug-today-is-not-the-15th/4640/1 "2018-12-14T18:04:37Z")

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But the website thinks it is.  
I’m in UTC+1.

![image](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/e/ec751cf75bc5dd1d995143593d5e75bb64b0cec1.png)

Edit:

And only a few minutes later the website is well behaved again:  
 ![image](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/1/1b88b64094312a3e79908e278dc790235402e6af.png)

The obvious logical conclusion is that… my timezone must have changed! Alas, it did not.

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/bug-today-is-not-the-15th/4640/2 "2018-12-17T08:01:31Z")

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Thanks for the possible bug report!  
First thing to double check: what’s your deadline for this goal?  
(For those who don’t know, Beeminder treats the deadline as the end-of-day. So if you set a 5pm deadline then at 5:01pm Beeminder will treat today as tomorrow. Which is confusing but arguably less confusing than alternative ways of dealing with deadlines.)

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**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/bug-today-is-not-the-15th/4640/3 "2018-12-17T12:14:16Z")

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I just realized that the second screenshot was of a different goal! One uses hours as unit, the other one pomodoros. My bad!

And indeed the deadline of the first goal is 1pm:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/d/da6aaf753b4da8a85d689d9aeece36b08fb7728e.png)

Seems it is exactly what you are describing which makes this bug a feature? Working as intended? Leaky abstraction? I mean it really is more a “Today\*” with a the disclaimer “Not really, but for all intents and purposes of beeminder”.  
But who is entering data using this interface is not beeminder but people.  
People who have a more static definition of “Today”. Who find it confusing if all of a sudden during their day it is no longer Today but Tomorrow. At 1:01pm.  
I do at least.