• From: Liberty, SC
  • Registered: 2009-12-24
  • Posts: 10

Topic: Daylight Savings Time

Still celebrating the resurrection of my little Chumby One! If I set it as my alarm clock, will the DST change tonight auto sync? If so, I'll be waking up to WFAE's streaming URL!

  • Duane
  • Duane
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  • From: San Diego, CA
  • Registered: 2006-08-24
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Re: Daylight Savings Time

It should change automatically, assuming the rules haven't been changed for your zone.

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  • From: Dallas, Tx
  • Registered: 2011-01-08
  • Posts: 1,261

Re: Daylight Savings Time

Yes.

The chumby runs linux, and it reads the time off of network time protocol servers on the internet, in UTC time, then it looks at the timezone charts that match up to whatever timezone you set it to, and applies an offset from UTC to local time, part of the configuration in the timezone files is when, (or if) DST changes happen.

the change for this year is scheduled:

America/Chicago  Sun Mar  9 07:59:59 2014 UTC = Sun Mar  9 01:59:59 2014 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
America/Chicago  Sun Mar  9 08:00:00 2014 UTC = Sun Mar  9 03:00:00 2014 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
America/Chicago  Sun Nov  2 06:59:59 2014 UTC = Sun Nov  2 01:59:59 2014 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
America/Chicago  Sun Nov  2 07:00:00 2014 UTC = Sun Nov  2 01:00:00 2014 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.
  • From: Liberty, SC
  • Registered: 2009-12-24
  • Posts: 10

Re: Daylight Savings Time

Sweet! Thanks!