Daylight Savings Time transitions will cause problems with the display of your charts, but it doesn’t affect your actual data. Here’s a few notes to help you through the weekend:
- Trixie Tracker will handle the time change automatically. You don’t need to do anything.
- Your charts will be off until Monday. There’s no way to map 23 hours or 25 hours to a 24-hour time scale. It’s like trying to park an 11-foot car in a 10-foot garage — it’s just not possible.
Falling Back
In the fall, it’s extremely difficult to tell software which 1:50 am you are talking about when there are two times that exactly match that description. To avoid this problem, please record events in real-time during the transition hour (and avoid editing them afterwards).
Springing Forward
In the spring, the transition is easier. Recording real time events shouldn’t be affected because we skipping ahead, and the times never overlap.