in web version use local client time instead of server time for recording dateModified etc.

src/public/app/services/server.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ function getHeaders(headers) {
     // also avoiding using underscores instead of dashes since nginx filters them out by default
     const allHeaders = {
         'trilium-source-id': glob.sourceId,
+        'trilium-local-now-datetime': utils.localNowDateTime(),
         'x-csrf-token': glob.csrfToken
     };
 

src/public/app/services/tab_context.js

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class TabContext extends Component {
 
         this.autoBookDisabled = false;
         this.textPreviewDisabled = false;
+        this.codePreviewDisabled = false;
 
         setTimeout(async () => {
             // we include the note into recent list only if the user stayed on the note at least 5 seconds

src/public/app/services/utils.js

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ function formatDateTime(date) {
     return formatDate(date) + " " + formatTime(date);
 }
 
+function localNowDateTime() {
+    return dayjs().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ')
+}
+
 function now() {
     return formatTimeWithSeconds(new Date());
 }
@@ -321,6 +325,7 @@ export default {
     formatDate,
     formatDateISO,
     formatDateTime,
+    localNowDateTime,
     now,
     isElectron,
     isMac,

src/routes/routes.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+"use strict";
+
 const setupRoute = require('./setup');
 const loginRoute = require('./login');
 const indexRoute = require('./index');
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ function route(method, path, middleware, routeHandler, resultHandler, transactio
         try {
             const result = await cls.init(async () => {
                 cls.namespace.set('sourceId', req.headers['trilium-source-id']);
+                cls.namespace.set('localNowDateTime', req.headers['`trilium-local-now-datetime`']);
                 protectedSessionService.setProtectedSessionId(req);
 
                 if (transactional) {

src/routes/setup.js

@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 const sqlInit = require('../services/sql_init');
 const setupService = require('../services/setup');
 const utils = require('../services/utils');
-const windowService = require('../services/window');
 
 async function setupPage(req, res) {
     if (await sqlInit.isDbInitialized()) {
+        const windowService = require('../services/window');
+
         if (utils.isElectron()) {
             await windowService.createMainWindow();
             windowService.closeSetupWindow();

src/services/cls.js

@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ function getSourceId() {
     return namespace.get('sourceId');
 }
 
+function getLocalNowDateTime() {
+    return namespace.get('localNowDateTime');
+}
+
 function disableEntityEvents() {
     namespace.set('disableEntityEvents', true);
 }
@@ -50,6 +54,7 @@ module.exports = {
     wrap,
     namespace,
     getSourceId,
+    getLocalNowDateTime,
     disableEntityEvents,
     isEntityEventsDisabled,
     reset,

src/services/date_utils.js

@@ -1,17 +1,29 @@
 const dayjs = require('dayjs');
+const cls = require('./cls');
 
 function utcNowDateTime() {
     return utcDateStr(new Date());
 }
 
+// CLS date time is important in web deployments - server often runs in different time zone than user is located in
+// so we'd prefer client timezone to be used to record local dates. For this reason requests from client contain
+// "trilium-local-now-datetime" header which is then stored in CLS
 function localNowDateTime() {
-    return dayjs().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ')
+    return cls.getLocalNowDateTime()
+        || dayjs().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ')
 }
 
 function localNowDate() {
+    const clsDateTime = cls.getLocalNowDateTime();
+
+    if (clsDateTime) {
+        return clsDateTime.substr(0, 10);
+    }
+    else {
         const date = new Date();
 
         return date.getFullYear() + "-" + pad(date.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + pad(date.getDate());
+    }
 }
 
 function pad(num) {

src/services/env.js

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module.exports = {
     isDev: function () {
-        return process.env.TRILIUM_ENV && process.env.TRILIUM_ENV === 'dev';
+        return !!(process.env.TRILIUM_ENV && process.env.TRILIUM_ENV === 'dev');
     }
 };