Daylight Savings on Smartnode
- On the SmartNode a timezone and a DST rule can be defined. For Daylight Saving Purposes there can be Timers defined which adjust the Timezone Offset according to the Daylight Savings Rule.
- The Rules which can be applied are like
- last Sunday of October
- first Saturday of March
- second Sunday of April
- first Sunday after March 20
- Determine Rule
- ask your government or find on a website the Rule according which in your Timezone Daylight Saving is handled
Example for Switzerland
- Switzerland is in timezone GMT+1
- Daylight savings shift the clock about one hour to GMT+2
- Daylight savings begins on last sunday in march at 02:00
- Daylight savings ends on last sunday in october at 03:00
- Two clock comands are rquired: first command defines the standard time zone, second command sets the daylight time zone including the day light period.
Smartware Example:
clock local default-offset +01:00 clock local dst-rule DST_SUMMER +02:00 from 02:00 mar last sunday until 03:00 oct last sunday
Trinity Example:
clock local default-offset +01:00 clock local dst-rule SUMMER +01:00 from mar last sunday 02:00 2000 until oct last sunday 03:00 2036
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