Marker on wrong candle

In the screenshot you can see I have a square marker (position logged in the console) 1665655200 '2022-10-13 10:00:00'

The chart candles are 4 hours. However, after pushing and setting the marker, it’s in the wrong position.

The marker has timestamp 2022-10-13 10:00:00 (converted to unix) so surely it should fall into the prior candlestick (08:00-12:00)? Instead it’s in the candlestick that starts from 12:00!

[Vimiso]

With a candle, the time is for the close (or end of the candle)

This does not seem to be true, looking at the last candle (ongoing) at tradingview.com, also in my implementation of lightweight-charts, It seems like candles display the opening time and not the closing time. (Current candle always displays a timestamp from the past, rather than the future)

For Example in the screenshot attached (1H Chart). If candles were showing the closing time, the time displayed at last candle on time axis should be 1:30 not 12:30 (See current time in the System toolbar at the top)

@SlicedSilver @Vimiso Am I missing something here?

My formula above fixes the issues because it takes a markerUnixTime which is already some opening time of some interval and rounds it to some interval you are displaying in your chart, plotting it at the correct open position.

Also, if you want to compare with TD, make sure your timezone is the same between your local and TD. In my case I set my TD timezone to UTC for testing, to match my local implementation.

[SlicedSilver]

Lightweight charts will show the date and time that you assign to time value of the data point, it’s different to how it works on TV because those charts use a specific resolution (say 1H). A lightweight chart doesn’t ‘fix’ your timestamps or require that the data points have regular time gaps.

Here is an example with bar with different time intervals between them. Notice that the time scale isn’t ‘linear’. https://jsfiddle.net/msilverwood/bhLoxp9g/