Daylight saving time

Some countries around the world have adopted adding an extra hour of daylight to the evenings during the summer time to make use of extra light. The extra hour is removed at the start of the winter. Daylight saving is more effective in countries further away from equator.

By default, the RUCKUS device does not change the system time for daylight savings time, you must manually configure the summer-time settings. When used, daylight savings are implemented in three sets of dates and times:

  • USA—Summer time starts at 2:00am on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2:00am on the first Sunday of November.
  • Europe—Summer time starts at 2:00am on the last Sunday of March and ends at 2:00am on the last Sunday of October.
  • Rest of the world—Summer time starts at 2:00am on the last Sunday of March and ends at 2:00am on the last Sunday of October, but some countries have different start and end dates depending on the longitude.

Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is not observed in Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe). Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its large size and location in three states.

Due to variations in the dates when daylight savings time is implemented, you can manually configure the date and time of the start and end of summer-time. An offset of minutes can also be configured.

Parent topic: System clock