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Nathanael Lee

Hi there

I am in Switzerland/Zurich timezone and its set correctly on the user. I have configured the Sales Order Sequence like in the screenshot below. The goal is, that it shows always YEAR-MONTH-DAY-(Subsequence restarting at 1 every day).

It works, but the issue is that it is shifted by some hours. If I create a Sale order at 22pm on 23. August 2025, it will already show SO-2025-08-24-01 instead of SO-2025-08-23-01. Does anybody know how to solve this?


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Hi,


Odoo’s ir.sequence uses fields.Datetime.now() which gives a UTC timestamp. When the prefix is evaluated with date placeholders (%(year)s, %(month)s, %(day)s), it uses UTC values — not your user timezone.


1- Custom Fix with Local Time.


You can override the _get_prefix_suffix method of ir.sequence to apply the user’s timezone:


from odoo import models, fields

from pytz import timezone


class IrSequence(models.Model):

    _inherit = "ir.sequence"


    def _get_prefix_suffix(self, date=None, date_range=None, seq_date=None):

        # Call super

        prefix, suffix = super()._get_prefix_suffix(date, date_range, seq_date)


        # Adjust seq_date to user timezone

        user_tz = self.env.user.tz or 'UTC'

        tz = timezone(user_tz)

        if seq_date:

            seq_date = fields.Datetime.context_timestamp(self.env.user, seq_date)


        # Recompute prefix/suffix with local date

        if seq_date:

            d = {

                'year': seq_date.strftime('%Y'),

                'month': seq_date.strftime('%m'),

                'day': seq_date.strftime('%d'),

            }

            if prefix:

                prefix = prefix % d

            if suffix:

                suffix = suffix % d


        return prefix, suffix


This way, the sequence date uses the user’s timezone instead of UTC.

The problem happens because Odoo generates sequences in UTC, so your SO created at 23:00 Zurich time gets the next day’s date in the sequence. To fix it, override ir.sequence to compute the prefix with the user’s timezone instead of UTC.


Hope it helps


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