Tine zone issue

[gabbott]

Hello, having some trouble with the time in the ISY. I live in Champaign, Illinois, which is in the Central time zone so I use Chicago because it's the most logical (though as a side note I find it interesting a very small town in my County, Bondville, IL is listed but Champaign isn't?), anyway, the time is always one hour slow. I had to select New York (in the Eastern time zone) to get the ISY set to the correct time. I have not had this issue before and only noticed it since upgrading to 3.1.10 beta earlier today trying to fix a linking issue. Anyone else seen this problem?

 

I'm running:

ISY 99i Pro (1040)

Running ISY99i V.3.1.10

PLM: v92

 

Thank you in advance!

 

Greg

[Michel Kohanim]

Hello Greg,

 

Have you checked Daylight Saving box? This should correct the one hour discrepancy.

 

Also, what you might want to do is use precise latitude and longitude for your location instead of using an actual location name. You have two ways of doing this:

1. Find the lat/long for your location, click on Admin Console | Configuration | System | Clock | Change Location button and enter the lat/long for your location OR

2. Click on the Change Location button and then click on the Locate Me button in the ensuing dialog

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[gabbott]

Sorry, neglected to say that it doesn't matter if the DST box is selected or not.

 

Hello Greg,

 

Have you checked Daylight Saving box? This should correct the one hour discrepancy.

 

Also, what you might want to do is use precise latitude and longitude for your location instead of using an actual location name. You have two ways of doing this:

1. Find the lat/long for your location, click on Admin Console | Configuration | System | Clock | Change Location button and enter the lat/long for your location OR

2. Click on the Change Location button and then click on the Locate Me button in the ensuing dialog

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[gabbott]

So this got me to wondering how changes to the DST or 24-hour time got applied, since changing these states did not allow the Save button to become active, so.... I power cycled the 99i and nothing. So I unchecked DST and changed the zone to an east coast zone again and power cycled - time was one hour ahead (EST). I then changed it back to a CST zone and selected DST. Time did not changed. Power cycled again and now it's on the right zone (CST with DST).

 

Is this normal to need to power cycle after changing the time settings? I'm not sure I had ever changed the time since it was new, so this may be normal to need to power cycle or it may be an issue with this version - either way my issue is currently resolved. I'll keep an eye on it this weekend with the time change to see if updates correctly.

 

Thanks.

 

Greg

 

Sorry, neglected to say that it doesn't matter if the DST box is selected or not.

 

Hello Greg,

 

Have you checked Daylight Saving box? This should correct the one hour discrepancy.

 

Also, what you might want to do is use precise latitude and longitude for your location instead of using an actual location name. You have two ways of doing this:

1. Find the lat/long for your location, click on Admin Console | Configuration | System | Clock | Change Location button and enter the lat/long for your location OR

2. Click on the Change Location button and then click on the Locate Me button in the ensuing dialog

 

With kind regards,

Michel

[apostolakisl]

I don't really want to change the time settings on my ISY to find out, but did you try just closing your Java admin console and reopening it to see if that fixed the time. I do believe that the Java window loads the time from the ISY when you log in and then keeps time itself after that on the local computer. I believe that to be true becuase the time on the Java admin panel slowly gets out of sync with the ISY. Like a second every few hours.