Prayer Times Showing Wrong Day for Western Hemisphere Users

Prayer times displayed the next day's schedule for visitors in timezones behind UTC, across the Americas and the Pacific. The server requested times from the prayer API using the UTC date, but during evening hours in the United States the UTC date has already advanced to the next day. The result was a schedule shifted by about an hour, for example daylight time figures shown to a viewer still on standard time. The fix stops sending an explicit date, so the prayer API determines the correct local date from the viewer's coordinates.

• Posted: Mar 8, 2026, 01:00 UTC
• Resolved: Mar 8, 2026, 01:30 UTC
• Duration: 30m

Timeline

1. resolved

   01:30 UTC

   This incident has been resolved. Prayer times requests no longer include an explicit date, so the prayer service determines the correct local date from the viewer's coordinates. Maghrib for Apple Valley now correctly shows 6:09 PM Central Standard Time. The cache was cleared. No data was impacted.

2. identified

   01:15 UTC

   The cause has been identified. The server requested prayer times using the UTC date. At 7:00 PM Central Standard Time on March 7, the UTC date had already advanced to March 8, so the service returned March 8 times calculated for daylight saving. Every time appeared roughly one hour ahead.

3. investigating

   01:00 UTC

   We are currently investigating a report that prayer times for Apple Valley, Minnesota showed Maghrib at 7:10 PM instead of the expected 6:09 PM. We are reviewing the data returned by the prayer times service.

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