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Added Moonfin/Time: the server's clock and time zone - #364
Adds GET /Moonfin/Time, which returns the server's clock and time zone. Jellyfin judges a user's access schedule against the server's local time and no stock endpoint reports it, so a client in another time zone can't tell when the account closes or next opens. Ping gains a timeSupported flag so clients know whether to ask.
This replaces #341, rebased on current master and now tested on a live server with a Roku client.
Jellyfin only for now: the Emby port doesn't get the endpoint or the flag, because I have no Emby server to test it on. Happy to follow up with it.
Jellyfin/backend/Api/ServerTimeController.cs: GET Moonfin/Time ([Authorize(Policy = "IgnoreParentalControl")], see below) returns { utcTime, localTime, utcOffsetSeconds, timeZoneId, isDaylightSavingTime }. utcTime is ISO 8601 UTC with a trailing Z; localTime is the same instant on the server's wall clock with no offset, which is what a schedule is judged against; the offset is in seconds, east positive, and reflects daylight saving at that instant.
MoonfinController: timeSupported: true on the Ping response, nullable like the other capability flags, so an older plugin leaves it out and clients fall back to the device clock.
ServerTimeTests: the response for fixed instants and zones (positive and negative offsets, day rollover, a New York daylight saving switch) and the JSON keys clients read.
Moonfin/Time and Moonfin/Ping use Jellyfin's IgnoreParentalControl policy instead of the default one. The default policy refuses a user who is outside their access schedule, which is exactly when the client needs the server clock to say when the account next opens, and Ping to learn it can ask. Every other endpoint still enforces the schedule. A test checks both endpoints carry the policy.
Client Impact
Companion client PR(s) required, linked here: the Roku change (benklop/Rokufeat/server-time-sync) uses it and will follow once its own testing is done. Nothing in the plugin depends on any client.
New response keys, all camelCase: timeSupported (Ping), utcTime, localTime, utcOffsetSeconds, timeZoneId, isDaylightSavingTime (Moonfin/Time). No settings keys.
Compatibility
Change to the settings profile is additive only, no renamed or removed properties
New properties use the same type the client sends (a client bool maps to bool?, an int to int?)
Older clients still work, unknown fields are ignored and no keys were removed
The settings profile isn't touched.
Testing
Built the plugin and deployed to a Jellyfin server
Verified against a live client (which one: Roku, TCL 43S405, Roku OS 16.0.4, with benklop/Rokufeat/server-time-sync sideloaded)
Manual testing completed
Built from this branch, installed through a plugin repository on a Jellyfin 12.2.0 server in America/New_York, restarted, then:
GET /Moonfin/Time answered {"utcTime":"2026-11-01T02:42:19Z","localTime":"2026-10-31T22:42:19","utcOffsetSeconds":-14400,"timeZoneId":"America/New_York","isDaylightSavingTime":true}, matching the server's wall clock.
GET /Moonfin/Ping reported timeSupported: true.
The Roku, set to America/Vancouver (three hours behind), read the endpoint and judged a test user's schedule by it: the account closed at 23:30 server time (20:30 on the Roku's clock), and the Time's up screen named the next opening in server time.
dotnet test of Moonfin.Server.Tests: 1052 passed.
Access schedule: signed in as a non-admin user, then gave them a schedule that was closed at that moment. On the previous build Moonfin/Time and Moonfin/Ping answered 403. On this build both answer 200, while /Users/Me and items still answer 403 and a request with no token still gets 401.
Not tested on Jellyfin 10.10 or 10.11, only 12.2.0.
Test Steps
Install the build on a Jellyfin server whose time zone differs from your client's.
GET /Moonfin/Time with a user token and check localTime against the server's wall clock.
GET /Moonfin/Ping and check timeSupported is true.
Give a non-admin user an access schedule that is closed now and check GET /Moonfin/Time and GET /Moonfin/Ping still answer 200 with their token, while /Users/Me answers 403.
Checklist
Code builds successfully
Code follows project style and conventions
No unnecessary commented-out code
No new warnings introduced
Any new setting keys match the client-side keys exactly
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Summary
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New Features
The server now reports that it supports time information.
A new server-time endpoint provides the current UTC and local times, UTC offset, time zone, and daylight-saving status, with times formatted to the nearest second.
When an offset change is expected within the next 400 days, the endpoint reports its expected time and resulting offset.
Server-time and ping information remain available when access-schedule restrictions would otherwise apply.
The plugin adds an authorized GET /Moonfin/Time endpoint. It returns UTC and server-local time details, including the next UTC offset change when one is found within 400 days. The ping response now reports time support. Tests cover time formatting, offsets, daylight-saving status, transitions, and response keys.
Changes: Server time API and capability
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Summary
Server time response and endpoint Jellyfin/backend/Api/ServerTimeController.cs, Jellyfin/tests/Moonfin.Server.Tests/ServerTimeTests.cs
The authorized endpoint returns UTC and local timestamps, UTC offset, time-zone ID, and daylight-saving status. It reports the next offset change and its new offset when a change is found within 400 days. Tests cover formatting, date rollovers, daylight-saving transitions, and serialized response keys.
Ping capability flag Jellyfin/backend/Api/MoonfinController.cs, Jellyfin/tests/Moonfin.Server.Tests/ServerTimeTests.cs
Ping sets TimeSupported to true. The response serializes the nullable property as timeSupported. Ping uses the IgnoreParentalControl authorization policy. Tests check the authorization policy on both endpoints.
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The description follows the template and fills in the main sections: Summary, Related Issues, Type of Change, Area, Changes Made, Client Impact, Compatibility, Testing with steps, and Checklist. It explains the purpose (clients in other time zones need the server's local time for access schedules), the policy change, and the tests run on a live Jellyfin 12.2.0 server with a Roku client. Minor gaps: the Summary is not split from the rationale, the Changes Made list is accurate but long, the Screenshots section is absent (the template marks it as optional), and the Emby scope limitation is noted only in the Summary. None of these block the check.
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- Line 21: Update the Emby port to expose the `Moonfin/Time` endpoint and
include the `timeSupported` flag in its Ping response, matching the Jellyfin
behavior and using the existing Emby request and response patterns.
- Line 22: Update the authorization attributes for the GetTime endpoint in
ServerTimeController and the Ping endpoint in MoonfinController to use the
IgnoreParentalControl policy, allowing both endpoints to remain accessible
outside scheduled access hours.
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…n turn a future time on the server's clock into an instant across daylight saving.
A client that names the next opening of an access schedule in its own time zone has to turn a
time on the server's wall clock into an instant, and the server's offset right now is wrong for
that once daylight saving changes in between. Moonfin/Time now also answers
nextOffsetChangeUtc, the first instant the server's offset differs from now (ISO 8601 UTC, to the
second), and nextUtcOffsetSeconds, the offset after it. Both are null for a zone without changes
within about 400 days. Changes come months apart, so one is enough for a week's look-ahead.
It's found by stepping a day at a time and halving the day it falls in, so it relies only on
TimeZoneInfo.GetUtcOffset and not on how the zone's adjustment rules are written. Older clients
ignore the new keys.
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- Around line 124-139: Update the `NextOffsetChangeUtc` and
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Jellyfin's default policy refuses a user outside their access schedule, which is when the client needs the server clock to say when the account next opens, and Ping to learn it can ask.
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… none, not null
Jellyfin drops null properties from its responses, so a server with no change coming leaves both keys out, the same as a plugin that predates them. Clients already treat a missing key as no change.
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- Around line 135-136: Update the XML documentation for NextUtcOffsetSeconds to
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…ter it
The response names one change, so a time past the one after it needs a fresh answer, not the same offset.
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…without being administrators
An administrator groups accounts into households under Accounts. A household's managers can then,
for everyone in it (other managers included):
- add them all to the manager's own device at once (POST Moonfin/Household/Sessions, Jellyfin 12.0+,
which keeps a session and token per user on a device; refused with unsupported_server before that),
- approve a Quick Connect code for one of them on another device,
- set or remove their PIN without the current one,
- read and replace their access schedule.
GET Moonfin/Household lists who the caller manages, with PIN, disabled, schedule and
allowed-now/next-allowed state, and answers non-managers with empty lists so a client can decide
whether to offer household setup at sign-in. Ping advertises householdSupported and
householdSessionsSupported.
Administrators can never be in a household or be reached: saves drop them and every call re-checks
the server's users. A manager can sign in as a co-manager, so reach follows co-managers into their
other households; the config page shows each manager's reach. Sessions are only minted for the
caller's own device from their token's claims, disabled accounts and remote-blocked accounts are
refused, and sign-ins are rate limited per manager. AccessSchedules are read and written by
reflection because their entity type moved assemblies in 10.11.
Builds on Moonfin-Client#365 (UserDirectory on 12.2) and Moonfin-Client#364 (Moonfin/Time), merged in here.
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…in answers it outside the schedule.
Moonfin-Client/Plugin#364 lets Moonfin/Time and Ping through Jellyfin's IgnoreParentalControl
policy, so the server tells the time to a user outside their hours. The watcher now keeps reading it
while the account is closed: a Roku that launches with the account already closed names the next
opening in the server's time, and a daylight saving change on the server during a closed spell is
picked up at the next look instead of judging by the offset read before closing.
- AccessScheduleWatcher asks whenever the plugin has the endpoint, blocked or not. A plugin that
still refuses it while blocked keeps the clock read while the user was let in, as before.
- AccessScheduleTask waits at most 5 seconds for Moonfin/Time, so a stalled clock read can't hold
up a refusal from Users/Me and the stop of playback that follows. A read that doesn't come keeps
the last clock.
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Pull Request
Summary
Adds
GET /Moonfin/Time, which returns the server's clock and time zone. Jellyfin judges a user's access schedule against the server's local time and no stock endpoint reports it, so a client in another time zone can't tell when the account closes or next opens. Ping gains atimeSupportedflag so clients know whether to ask.This replaces #341, rebased on current master and now tested on a live server with a Roku client.
Jellyfin only for now: the Emby port doesn't get the endpoint or the flag, because I have no Emby server to test it on. Happy to follow up with it.
Related Issues
Type of Change
Area
Changes Made
Jellyfin/backend/Api/ServerTimeController.cs:GET Moonfin/Time([Authorize(Policy = "IgnoreParentalControl")], see below) returns{ utcTime, localTime, utcOffsetSeconds, timeZoneId, isDaylightSavingTime }.utcTimeis ISO 8601 UTC with a trailingZ;localTimeis the same instant on the server's wall clock with no offset, which is what a schedule is judged against; the offset is in seconds, east positive, and reflects daylight saving at that instant.MoonfinController:timeSupported: trueon the Ping response, nullable like the other capability flags, so an older plugin leaves it out and clients fall back to the device clock.ServerTimeTests: the response for fixed instants and zones (positive and negative offsets, day rollover, a New York daylight saving switch) and the JSON keys clients read.Moonfin/TimeandMoonfin/Pinguse Jellyfin'sIgnoreParentalControlpolicy instead of the default one. The default policy refuses a user who is outside their access schedule, which is exactly when the client needs the server clock to say when the account next opens, and Ping to learn it can ask. Every other endpoint still enforces the schedule. A test checks both endpoints carry the policy.Client Impact
benklop/Rokufeat/server-time-sync) uses it and will follow once its own testing is done. Nothing in the plugin depends on any client.timeSupported(Ping),utcTime,localTime,utcOffsetSeconds,timeZoneId,isDaylightSavingTime(Moonfin/Time). No settings keys.Compatibility
bool?, an int toint?)The settings profile isn't touched.
Testing
benklop/Rokufeat/server-time-syncsideloaded)Built from this branch, installed through a plugin repository on a Jellyfin 12.2.0 server in America/New_York, restarted, then:
GET /Moonfin/Timeanswered{"utcTime":"2026-11-01T02:42:19Z","localTime":"2026-10-31T22:42:19","utcOffsetSeconds":-14400,"timeZoneId":"America/New_York","isDaylightSavingTime":true}, matching the server's wall clock.GET /Moonfin/PingreportedtimeSupported: true.dotnet testofMoonfin.Server.Tests: 1052 passed.Moonfin/TimeandMoonfin/Pinganswered 403. On this build both answer 200, while/Users/Meand items still answer 403 and a request with no token still gets 401.Not tested on Jellyfin 10.10 or 10.11, only 12.2.0.
Test Steps
GET /Moonfin/Timewith a user token and checklocalTimeagainst the server's wall clock.GET /Moonfin/Pingand checktimeSupportedistrue.GET /Moonfin/TimeandGET /Moonfin/Pingstill answer 200 with their token, while/Users/Meanswers 403.Checklist
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