Switching to winter-time settings?

[Roelli]

I am trying to get the automatic summertime/wintertime working for the past 15 years, without success.

Does anyone have the right settings?
(I can post my wrong settings, but not sure if this helps, timeserver works, time zone is correct, whatever I set at "DST" does not work)

Thanks,
Roelli.

 

[fullboogie]

I found this old thread:

How the **** you setup the correct time?

I have 5 hikvision cameras, and none of them I have the correct time. I live in a GMT+1 zone and currently we have the summer time (1 hour more) When I syncronize manually with my PC, after a while it goes bananas and shows 30 minutes less on one camera, on another camera it shows 1 hour less...

www.use-ip.co.uk

Unfortunately, the "how to" thread referenced in the one above has all of the screen shots deleted at this point, so I'm not sure how much it's going to help.

 

[Roelli]

Ok. Now I finally know the DST means (Daylight Saving Time)


"Some NTP servers send a signal that's already adjusted for DST"
Good. But I could not find this NTP server.

"enter in the information relevant to the DST"
I tried that, but obviosly I never found the right settings.

 

[codlord]

I use the following settings:

Cameras:
I set the timezone, enable NTP and I use NTP Settings:
Server: pool.ntp.org
Port: 123
Minutes: 60
Under DST I leave "Enable DST" unchecked. I find that the NVR syncs the cameras so this does not need to be enabled on cameras.
Note: If your cameras are directly connected to your NVR then they will not be able to get access to the internet and therefore the NTP settings are irrelevant as they won't work - the cameras will have to be synced by the NVR.
My cameras are on switches so maybe NTP does not even need to be enabled here either, but I do it anyway...

NVR:
Same as the instructions for the cameras above apart from "Enable DST" is ENABLED/CHECKED with the following settings (for the UK anyway):
Start Time: Mar Last Sun 01
End Time: Oct Last Sun 02
DST Bias: 60 minutes.

These settings are saying:
DST starts (clock goes forward 60 mins) on the last Sunday in March at 1AM
DST ends (clock goes backward 60 mins) on the last Sunday in October at 2AM

 

[Roelli]

Ah! Nice.
I entered your settings and it seems to work. Need to wait until summer to verify.

I did not know that the DVR will override all time settings. So maybe here was the problem.

Thanks a lot!