Recurring Flights and Date-related issues

FlightAware AeroAPI
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I have a concern about the flight information returned by the “Arrived” method (possible the others too but I’m just focusing on this method first). The documentation states that this method “returns information for flights that have recently arrived…”.

However, in looking at the date/time fields in some of these transactions, it appears that this is not always the case. I have several examples of flights that are returned by this call that have tomorrow’s date.

I guess my question is; do these sorts of records represent flights that run everyday and so that once “today’s” flight arrives, “tomorrow’s” enters the flow?

If this is the case, I suppose the date could be ignored and the time simply used, but when making calculations based on these relative dates, that is certainly not desireable.

If possible, can this be confirmed so that I can make a choice for a workaround?

Thanks!

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Can you paste an example query and the results?

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I think I know what is going on…sort of…

I was loading my data grid of Arrived flights via this method, that works as anticipated.

I was seeing the behavior when I would drill down into the flight for details using the FlightInfo method, this is the call that returns the dates from the following day.

I was able to fix the problem by using the dates from the Arrived record instead of the FlightInfo record.

So my problem is solvedm, but I guess it would be nice to shed some light on how the FlightInfo record changes over time. It seems clear that the arrival and departure dates/times do roll over (for certain recurring flights) and that would seem to make sense. Is that correct and if so, do you know the timing of this “rollover”?