Lock keypad access code timezone confusion

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I have a wyze lock with keypad that is located in a different timezone from where I am physically at. When I use the wyze app to set temporary access codes it seems that the code is being set using the current timezone of where my phone is located not where the keypad is located.

  1. Can anyone confirm this behavior?
  2. It would be helpful to at least include a note on the time selection screen to indicate what timezone the time will be, even better if it shows the timezone of the keypad and the delta between the two?

I assume the keypad is picking up the timezone from the WiFi it is on? It would be nice to get a confirmation of what timezone the keypad thinks it is in.

The net result of this is that I set a code on the keypad and it didn’t work for my guest. It appears this is because my phone was several hours behind the timezone of the keypad, when the guest entered the code it wasn’t yet the allowed time in my timezone but it was after the allowed time in the timezone where the keypad is located

Confusing and frustrating

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Oy. I can confirm. I recently was on vacation 12 time zones away from my house. I am an AirBnB host and I scheduled several temporary codes for guests arriving in the weeks following my return. After returning home I was awakened late at night by a guest returning to the house whose code expired 12 hours too early.

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Consider this another data point. I have a rental unit where we set a temporary access code for our guests. The lock unit is located two time-zones ahead of us. I normally set this for 12pm on arrival and departure days. I recently left on a biz trip 9 time zones away. Lo and behold, when I went to double check the access code time, it showed 7pm. Which would be my LOCAL time. This means that it properly programed the time and day for where the lock is located. However, after a time zone change with my phone, it is now DISPLAYING my local time for actuation. Crazy. I am now unsure (based on the earlier posts) how the time/actuation of the lock will behave when I program a date/time when I am located 9 time zones ahead. My location should have NO IMPACT on the date/time shown in the app, or it’s validity window. This is a bug.