Timezone issue: Bot saves to wrong daily note
My Obsidian bot writes to tomorrow's note instead of today's. At 8:53 PM EST (Jan 20), it saves to 2026-01-21.md instead of 2026-01-20.md.
Setup: macOS 15.1, clawdbot v2026.1.16-2, LaunchAgent daemon
What I've tried:
// ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json
"agents": {
"defaults": {
"userTimezone": "America/New_York"
}
}
<!-- LaunchAgent plist -->
<key>TZ</key>
<string>America/New_York</string>
Also ran launchctl setenv TZ America/New_York and updated USER.md with timezone. Reloaded multiple times.
Logs still show UTC:
[gateway] log file: /tmp/clawdbot/clawdbot-2026-01-21.log
What am I missing to make Node.js LaunchAgent respect timezone?
Setup: macOS 15.1, clawdbot v2026.1.16-2, LaunchAgent daemon
What I've tried:
// ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json
"agents": {
"defaults": {
"userTimezone": "America/New_York"
}
}
<!-- LaunchAgent plist -->
<key>TZ</key>
<string>America/New_York</string>
Also ran launchctl setenv TZ America/New_York and updated USER.md with timezone. Reloaded multiple times.
Logs still show UTC:
[gateway] log file: /tmp/clawdbot/clawdbot-2026-01-21.log
What am I missing to make Node.js LaunchAgent respect timezone?
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