Adjust clocks to work with DST

[Crystal Klink]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a code or clock widget that automatically adjusts for DST and can be named with a custom name.(Pacific time, Germany, etc.) The ones I have at the bottom of my board now are perfect except for that. If there's a way to force these ones to show DST, that works too.

Website is Life at Stalag 13

[Chris]

Mar 18, 2022 0:21:57 GMT -8 Crystal Klink said:

Hi all,

I'm looking for a code or clock widget that automatically adjusts for DST and can be named with a custom name.(Pacific time, Germany, etc.) The ones I have at the bottom of my board now are perfect except for that. If there's a way to force these ones to show DST, that works too.

Website is Life at Stalag 13

The observance and start times of DST are dependent on the political boundaries. For example, while the majority of the USA made the switch to DST on March 13th, 2022 (through November 6th, 2022) Germany is not scheduled to switch until March 27th, 2022 (through October 30th, 2022).
The clock widgets on the forum appear to be honoring DST and it might just be a misunderstanding of when DST starts in a particular area making it seem like they don't. It is probably best to pick a particular city or state rather than an entire timezone since as said before the DST is dependent on the government in that locale so a broad clock choice such as Mountain Time may not correctly reflect the time for someone living in Arizona since they do not honor DST.

[Crystal Klink]

Hi Chris. If there's any way to find out where I got the original widget from, I can try. I know it was a link I found on here; I just don’t remember where on this forum that I found it. 

Also, I'm on Pacific time, so I can confirm that one is an hour behind. It's currently saying 4:57am, but the time as of this post is 5:57am. Means the others are probably off too.

Thoughts?

[Chris]

24timezones.com is where the widget is grabbing its data.

Mexico is also in that Pacific Timezone and they still use the dates prior 2005 (first Sunday in April I believe) so they do not follow that bill passed by the US Congress. Most if not all the provinces and territories in Canada have since converted to the newer US dates. An entire timezone being a mixed bag may not be reliable enough to give you DST which is why I said to choose something a bit more specific such as a state or city locale if requiring DST since that heavily depends on the laws within that locale.

[Crystal Klink]

Thanks, Chris! I got it all sorted out now.