there is a gap of approx 6-8 hours from the live data if we try to pull story id using application

AndreiBersamin

hie, we usually pull the news story id using python via the refinitive API. but recently we have noticed that, we are not able to pull the latest news. for example, if we try to pull data from 12/01/2026 09:00:00 till 12/01/2026 21:00:00, and run the code at 12/01/2026 21:00:00, the latest data we get is only till 12/01/2026 15:00:00. but there were clearly news article after 12/01/2026 15:00:00 on the workspace application. we ran 2-3 simulations like this, and noticed that there is a gap of approx 6-8 hours from the live data if we try to pull story id using application. any particular reason ?need your URGENT HELP regarding this issue.

Reached out to NEws team but was advised to reach out to API

Jirapongse

@AndreiBersamin

Thank you for reaching out to us.

It may relate to the time zone. The time zone returned in the news response is UTC.

For example, my time zone is GMT+7. If I use the following request at 12:41(GMT+7) , the latest time in the response will be 05:41 (UTC).

from datetime import datetime
import zoneinfo

local_dt = datetime.now().astimezone()
print(f"Local time and timezone: {local_dt}")
print(f"Timezone name: {local_dt.tzname()}")

ld.news.get_headlines("ALL",start='2026-01-13T00:00:00',end='2026-01-13T12:40:00',count=100)

The client may need to verify their local time zone.