Smart Grid - Friday Stop Setting

Pineapple

During an Optimisation exercise I found the Friday Stop to be mildly useful.
So I implemented it into my SmartGrid bot and started it yesterday (Friday local time - NZ).
The Friday Stop time was set for 17:15. My Ctrader is set to UTC+13.
At 17:15 my time, I got these messages in the log:
25 04:13:31.111 | Info | Friday stop opening new trades at 17:15
14-02-2025 04:13:31.502 | Info | Friday stop opening new trades at 17:15
14-02-2025 04:13:31.658 | Info | Friday stop opening new trades at 17:15
..........
A message for every tick!
I read all I can find on the issue, and it appears the 17:15 should refer to market time, and thus the bot does the time conversion between my local time and market time.
Must be something I missed?
Thanks.

algoman

When you run a backtest or optimise, it uses the cTrader server time, which is UTC+0.
https://clickalgo.com/backtest-trading-hours

Pineapple

Hi,
Ahhh, I did read the configuration details re the UTC+0 note, but didn't quite put 2 and 2 together.
So, if I set my computer to UTC+0 for Backtesting/Opting, then the hour value is I get is the value I should use when I run the bot live (with my computer set to my local time)? That makes more sense. Will give that a go, just gotta wait a week to test it!
As a matter of procedure, do you experts generally set computer time to UTC+0 for running all Backtest/Opting ?
Or do you just set the computer time to UTC+0 when determining settings which depend on (server) time?
Thanks.