Question regarding Timed Output and Daylight Savings

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Question about Timed Output and Daylight savings

Hi guys, I was just curious about how Timed Output interacts with Daylight savings and a potential workaround for an issue I’m having. So at the moment we have trackers set up to do a certain command at a certain time every weekday which is fine in one half of the year. However, as soon as the clocks change this daily timed output will now be out by an hour. Is there anyway I can keep the trackers doing their timed output at the exact same time everyday regardless of what time of year we’re at??

I know this is quite technical but I would appreciate any help at all, thanks guys!

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How about using UTC time?

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Hi,

Do you have your own NTP server?

You can configure that to the device so that the device will always sync its time according to your NTP server
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Wiki page: FMC125 System settings - Wiki Knowledge Base | Teltonika GPS (teltonika-gps.com)

You can also adjust the device time from your server.

best Regards
Maynard C

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Hi @MagnusMuzzleflash,

please clarify:
do you want the event to happen every weekday
at (let’s say) 3 o’clock in the afternoon local time?
(which is on hour earlier during DST)?
or
do you want the event to happen every weekday
at (again let’s say) 3 pm UTC?

In either case, as @Maynard suggested, always setup
at least one NTP server, like the global NTP pool (pool.ntp.org)
or a more local one (like de.pool.ntp.org or lt.pool.ntp.org).

In my experience events triggered by cron always use the
local time and cron also adheres to DST.

Regards,
Timelapse Admin