Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a practice where clocks are set forward by one hour during the warmer months to extend evening daylight and "save" energy. Typically, it starts in spring, moving clocks ahead, and ends in autumn, moving them back. This adjustment aims to make better use of daylight, reducing the need for artificial lighting in the evenings.
Considerations for Daylight Saving Time have been built into all zencontrol application controllers meaning that the process of moving time back and forth between DST is handled automatically.
zencontrol application controllers store the current year's DST dates to ensure continuous operation during the situation of no internet being available to the controllers. This means that if a site does not remain connected to the internet, the following year's DST events will not be executed.
This may impact schedules on sites after up to 1 year of operation where they may run 1 hour later than expected.