Candle data from API appears incorrect?

[Jason]

I am experimenting with the API access and it seems that it's returning the candle data with a time offset and it's not obvious to me why. This is the command I am using through the WSTester:

{
 "cmd": "getCandles",
 "reqID": "1234",
 "startDate": "2023-06-23",
 "candleSize": "2",
 "regHoursOnly": "true",
 "sym": "AMD"
}

The data for the first candle is:

      {
        "t": "2023-06-23T13:30:00.000",
        "o": 109.31,
        "h": 110.42,
        "l": 109.13,
        "c": 110.27,
        "v": 1436842.0
      }

This data is correct for the first 2m candle as shown through the MT UI chart but obviously does not correspond to the 2m candle at 1:30pm. I have looked into the ISO date and time format being used without any clarification.

 

[Mike Medved]

2023-06-23T13:30:00.000  - that's UTC time. Currently 4 hours difference from Eastern. So that would be 9:30 Eastern.

[Jason]

Ah, thank you. For some reason was thinking the time was represented according to my system settings.