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fix(clients): live working timers count on the host's clock - #25500
When the host's clock runs ahead of the client's, the live "Working for" timer stays at 0s. Live timers subtract a host timestamp from the client's clock, so a host that is 1 hour fast makes the elapsed time negative for that hour. A host running behind inflates the timer by the same amount. Finished durations are fine because they use two host timestamps.
Each host now stamps its current time on the config snapshot that every client receives when it connects. The client records an offset per environment and the live working timers count on that environment's clock. The host stamps the time somewhere between the client's request and the reply, so the client keeps the offset nearest zero that fits that window. Clocks that agree get no correction, so a slow link does not shift timers for everyone else.
Timers read the offset on each tick, so this adds no re-renders. Older hosts don't send the field, so timers keep today's behavior there.
Surfaces changed: the chat "Working for" row and sidebar working/waiting durations on web and desktop, and the floating "Working" control and thread list durations on mobile.
Not changed: subagent timers, worktree setup stage timers, and "time ago" labels. They have the same skew, but they need the environment passed through separate components and they overlap open PRs. toServerClock covers them when needed.
When the host's clock ran ahead of the client's, live "Working for" timers
stayed at 0s, because they subtracted a host timestamp from the client's
clock. Hosts now stamp their time on the connect-time config snapshot, and
clients count live working timers on each environment's clock.
Closespingdotgg#25418
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused fix for live working-duration displays when client and host clocks differ. It adds a backward-compatible host-time sample and applies a small, tested per-environment offset across existing web and mobile timer surfaces without changing workflows or defaults.
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The server configuration now includes a server timestamp. The client records an environment-specific clock offset from the initial configuration snapshot and uses adjusted time for local dispatch timestamps and working-duration calculations in mobile and web thread displays.
Changes: Server-adjusted working timers
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Summary
Send and capture server time packages/contracts/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/session.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/state/server.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/session.test.ts
The server configuration includes an ISO timestamp. The client records timing from the initial configuration snapshot and excludes the timestamp from persisted configuration. Tests cover initial snapshots and reconnect behavior.
Record and apply clock offsets packages/client-runtime/src/clock.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/clock.test.ts
The client records server-clock offsets by environment and applies them to client timestamps. Tests cover clock differences, environment isolation, and missing timestamps.
Use adjusted time for local dispatch apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/useLocalDispatchState.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.test.ts
The local dispatch hook passes the environment ID into snapshot creation. When provided, snapshot creation uses that environment’s adjusted clock for startedAt; otherwise, it uses the local clock.
Use server time in working displays apps/mobile/src/features/threads/*, apps/web/src/components/chat/TimelineWorkGroupRows*, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx
Mobile and web working and waiting duration displays use the adjusted clock for the thread environment. Timeline duration formatting handles invalid start times and clamps negative elapsed time.
The reconnect test uses the correct socket index, and the first config snapshot receives a fresh host timestamp. No outstanding issue identified here prevents merging after normal checks.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: correcting live working timers to use the host clock.
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The description explains the problem, solution, affected surfaces, exclusions, linked issue, and visual before/after evidence. It is mostly complete, although it does not explicitly list focused test …
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Issue [#25418] requires live working timers to show elapsed time when host and client clocks differ. The host now sends serverTime in the config snapshot. The client records a per-environment offset…
Out of Scope Changes check
The changes stay within [#25418]. The server timestamp, config contract, session capture, clock helpers, timer-surface updates, and dispatch timestamp adjustment support host/client clock correction. …
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Issue [#25418] requires live working timers to show elapsed time when host and client clocks differ. The host now sends serverTime in the config snapshot. The client records a per-environment offset from the request and reply window and applies it on timer ticks. Web and mobile working and waiting timers use the adjusted environment clock. Tests cover clock skew, latency, environment isolation, reconnect behavior, and missing serverTime. The implementation preserves fallback behavior for older hosts.
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The changes stay within [#25418]. The server timestamp, config contract, session capture, clock helpers, timer-surface updates, and dispatch timestamp adjustment support host/client clock correction. The added tests verify this behavior. The PR excludes unrelated subagent, worktree setup, and time-ago surfaces. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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- Line 304: Update the initial snapshot handling around initialConfigDeferred so
the first snapshot clears the environment’s entry in serverClockOffsets when
serverTime is absent, while retaining the existing offset-setting behavior when
serverTime is present. Continue ignoring later snapshots.
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When an environment reconnected to a host that sends no serverTime, such as
an older host, live timers kept the previous connection's clock offset. The
first config snapshot of each connection now drops the offset when it has no
stamp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 469: Capture the current socket index before calling
`factory.connect(PREPARED)`, since connecting appends a socket to `sockets`.
Pass that saved index to `awaitSocket` instead of reading `sockets.length`
afterward so the reconnect test waits for the socket created by this connection.
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verified unchanged head f38bfd997e1d7cba018db06b30471b3f4fdbecc7 on a disposable linux boat vm.
installed and ran github/main (c677d5fc45) in a separate worktree, stopped its captured process group, then installed and ran the exact pr head. only one dev server ran at a time, with isolated state and no seeded data.
used repo playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. added the real /home/user/main git repository through the app, selected codex gpt-6.1-sol, and submitted real provider turns through the composer. no replay provider, mocks, or fixtures.
with the browser clock one hour behind, main's chat and sidebar stayed at 0s during a real shell command. the pr's timers advanced from 12s to 18s over six seconds. the video contains six seconds of each revision with the same project, prompt, provider, and skew.
with the browser clock one hour ahead, an existing thread's next turn started at 0s, advanced to 4s, and continued from 13s to 16s after reload. the sampled correction was -3599955ms.
resetting the browser clock to normal and reconnecting kept the active timer counting. the prior completed duration remained 1m across clock changes. stop generation produced Run interrupted · Stopped by user and removed the live timer.
blacksmith: vp i followed by focused clock, rpc session, and chat logic tests passed: 78 tests in 3 files. no source changes or pushes. github reports 21 successful, 6 skipped, and 1 neutral check at this head.
runtime transcript:
main, client -1h: chat 0s -> 0s; sidebar 0s -> 0s
pr, client -1h: chat 12s -> 18s; sidebar 12s -> 18s
pr, client +1h: 0s -> 4s; reload 13s -> 16s
pr, client 0h: chat 42s; stop -> Stopped by user
completed turn: Worked for 1m before and after reconnect
Not verified
native ios/android and electron shells, macos/windows, relay/tunnel connections, multiple environments, guest-share sse, other providers, and a live older host without serverTime. those clients/services were outside this linux web verification. older-host fallback and environment isolation passed the existing focused tests.
github currently reports conflicts with main. no merge, rebase, force-push, or conflict changes were attempted. the vm briefly reported cpu overload while the app warmed up; no provider turn stalled for ten minutes.
The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
these checks fail on a9cca3f, also when run again: Check, Test Web, and the rework changed nothing:
Nothing changed. The only failing test in Test Web is RightPanelTabs.browser.test.tsx > 'a flick that scrolls the tab strip to its left edge keeps the thread, a swipe from the edge goes back', and the Check job fails only because it gates on Test Web. This PR does not touch RightPanelTabs.tsx or its test, and both files are identical to origin/main. The test fails every time on this branch and also fails with the same command on current origin/main (c82e1ba), so the failure comes from main and is unrelated to the host-clock change. The branch is left at its current head and needs a fix to that test on main. The host-clock fix itself is unchanged: the server stamps serverTime on config snapshots, the client records a per-environment offset from each connection's first snapshot, and working/waiting timers on web, desktop and mobile plus optimistic web sends count on the host's clock.
Real web app, Chromium 156, 1280 × 800, light theme; fresh synthetic data on each commit. Browser Date offsets of −1h and +1h stand in for a host ahead and behind; the web test’s server and VM clocks are unchanged.
Run the same quiet replay, observe live ticks, let it finish, then activate a synthetic PR watch to observe Waiting. Repeat with the opposite offset. Base live timers stay at 0s or include an extra hour; head advances normally. Completed work is 17s on both. Waiting stays at 0s or approximately 1h on base, while head advances 2s→4s and 3s→5s.
Each completed still comes from its own run. Host-behind completed MD5 hashes differ: before 31d9256e57f159a80a61f21589fc61ff, after 46a2ce56d99ffe8b26c2b9c10e7efce3. The quiet replay avoids unrelated work-log or replay-step differences.
Native iOS: iPhone 18 Pro, iOS 27.2, 402 × 874 logical pixels, light theme. Each commit runs its own Metro bundle and fresh synthetic server home. The server process clock is +1h through libfaketime; the device clock is unchanged. Expand the Working shelf, open the same two-minute replay, and let it finish. Base list and floating detail timers stay at 0s; head list and floating detail timers advance normally. Both complete at 2m 2s.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
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Android and native host-behind were not exercised within this run; iOS exercised the changed shared mobile list, detail-status, and floating-control paths with host-ahead skew.
The VM system clock was not changed: web used browser Date emulation for ±1h skew; iOS used a +1h server-process wall-clock offset through libfaketime.
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When the host's clock runs ahead of the client's, the live "Working for" timer stays at 0s. Live timers subtract a host timestamp from the client's clock, so a host that is 1 hour fast makes the elapsed time negative for that hour. A host running behind inflates the timer by the same amount. Finished durations are fine because they use two host timestamps.
Each host now stamps its current time on the config snapshot that every client receives when it connects. The client records an offset per environment and the live working timers count on that environment's clock. The host stamps the time somewhere between the client's request and the reply, so the client keeps the offset nearest zero that fits that window. Clocks that agree get no correction, so a slow link does not shift timers for everyone else.
Timers read the offset on each tick, so this adds no re-renders. Older hosts don't send the field, so timers keep today's behavior there.
Surfaces changed: the chat "Working for" row and sidebar working/waiting durations on web and desktop, and the floating "Working" control and thread list durations on mobile.
Not changed: subagent timers, worktree setup stage timers, and "time ago" labels. They have the same skew, but they need the environment passed through separate components and they overlap open PRs.
toServerClockcovers them when needed.Closes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/25418
PR filed by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code through T3 Code.
Fixes #25418