Date for Gas readings

[dennisdegreef]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for this library! This saves me parsing the raw result 👍

I was just wondering, are you sure the date for gas readings is accurate?

For electricity, I get the following result (just using system time, new Date()):
date: Sun Nov 08 2015 23:08:00 GMT+0000 (UTC)

But for gas, I get the following result
date: Wed Dec 09 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Which is way off.

Why are you parsing it like this?
data.gas.date = new Date("20" + res[2].substring(0,2), res[2].substring(2,4), res[2].substring(4,6), res[2].substring(6,8), res[2].substring(8,10), res[2].substring(10,12), 0);

Could this issue have something to do with my system time being on UTC?
Is it accurate in your case?

Thanks a lot!
-Dennis

[dennisdegreef]

After some further digging, I understand the integer is not a timestamp, but actually the parsed date parts like your library implements.

I've apparently come across a bug in nodejs (v4.2.1)

> new Date(2015, 11, 9, 0, 0, 0);
Wed Dec 09 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (UTC)
> new Date("2015-11-09 00:00:00")
Mon Nov 09 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (UTC)
>

I'll setup a patch for this workaround (using the substrings to concatenate a string, which node will interpret correctly.