Algo logs the wrong dates and doesn't have accurate pricing

I am a noob just testing out a very simple strategy of buying leveraged ETFs during the last two trading hours if they have moved a certain percentage.

I noticed the logs in my backtests had some big issues with the dates and prices. First the dates all seem to be off one day; the quantopian data is all one day ahead. For example, when it is actually the 6th, it generates logs as the 7th, and the I have logs Saturdays when the market is not open.

Regarding pricing data, I suspect the error is on my part, but I can't get an accurate figure for the previous day's close. I define closing price as:

close_price = data.current(context.securities[0],"close")

inside a scheduled function that runs at the end of the of the day. I log this number, and it appears to just be a random number. When I schedule the function to run at a different time (but still on the same day), the supposed closing price changes as well. Not too sure where I went wrong here, and what price I'm actually referencing.

Lastly, what is the most efficient way to get a stock's current price? I use:

current_price = data.history(context.securities[0], "price", 2, "1m").iloc[0]

But I'm sure there's a much more efficient way that I don't know.

Thanks for any feedback. I'm a complete beginner programmer, and I'm really eager to learn.

Hi Yuyang, thanks for posting! Here are some answers to your questions:

Log dates one day ahead: Log dates are printed based on your system timezone. By your name, I assume you're in China, which means your timezone is 12+ hours ahead of US Eastern Time. This means that logs that are simulated in the afternoon Eastern Time will appear as the next day in China.

To get logs with Eastern Time simulation dates, you can change your system time zone to US/Eastern if you want. Alternatively you could prefix your logs with get_datetime('US/Eastern') to make clear what the Eastern Time simulation date is.
Getting the previous day's close / getting the current price: data.current gets the pricing data for the current minute bar; specifically, data.current( ... , "close") gets the close of the last minute, i.e., the current price of the equity. So you can get the current price that way or by using the alias for "close", "price" (reflecting that the latest data available for the price is the close of the last minute).

If you want the previous day's close, that would be the close of the last complete daily bar. To get daily bars, you have to use data.history. As the documentation says, the last daily bar given by data.history is a partial bar for the current day's data; so to get the previous day you have to look back 2 days. Here's how it's done:

data.history(context.securities[0], "close", 2, "1d")[-2]