Incorrect data timestamps

[eqoffical]

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Bug description

The issue: Some chats have multiple "today-yesterday" timestamps.

Additional: My bald guess, this miss alignment because of linked signal desktop app, but I can't reproduce this on purpose.

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[greyson-signal]

This is often a result of misaligned clocks between the sender and receiver. We always show messages in received order according to the local client's clock. However, we show the "sent time" based on when the sender says they sent it. In order to avoid inconsistencies between the timestamp on bubbles and the date dividers, we also render the date dividers based on the senders clock (otherwise you run into scenarios where the header says "today" but the timestamp we render is for yesterday, which is confusing in a different way -- pros and cons to both approaches).

Can you check with your chat partner and ask if they're clock is set different from yours? Given that the time-of-day seems to line up, my guess is that one of you have your clocks off by a day.

[eqoffical]

We'll try, but it's weird, we live in the same time zone.

[greyson-signal]

It doesn't have anything to do with timezone -- it would be that one of you has the wrong day set in your system settings. It would likely only happen if one of you manually set the time on your device to something different.

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