QGIS 3.20 and WMS-T is not passing the TIME parameter

Question

I'm having trouble using QGIS version 3.20 on Mac OS with a WMS-T layer.

The WMS service is available at https://ows.dea.ga.gov.au/wms. The specific layer I'm using is the DEA Land Cover layer, named ga_ls_landcover.

I can see QGIS picks up the temporal range in the UI, and I can enable the temporal controller, but using the debugging console shows the request, like below, which does not have the TIME parameter set, which means that only one date is being displayed.

https://ows.dea.ga.gov.au/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ga_ls_landcover&STYLES=level4&WIDTH=512&HEIGHT=512&FORMAT=image/png&CRS=EPSG:4326&DPI=72&MAP_RESOLUTION=72&FORMAT_OPTIONS=dpi:72&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&BBOX=-42.93147526198666242,147.33781129267094911,-42.89315192638898822,147.37613462826863042

What is the correct way to get QGIS to be passing the TIME parameter to the web server?

An image of the config in QGIS is shown below.

Answer 1

It turns out that this is a bug, reported here.

I have tested with QGIS 3.22 and can confirm that it is fixed in this new version. The TIME parameter is passed through, and the temporal controller can be used to step through the years of the WMS service.

Answer 2

I tested here with QGIS master. The layer properies I used are the defaults for temporal:

After that I can see the requests set the TIME parameter correctly as I move along the time slider in the temporal controller. One thing I can see in your screenshot is that you have not set the step size in the controller widget:

With that set, you can see the subsequent requests to the service will include the time step: