Pi aware and change to DST

FlightAware General
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This past sunday morning at 2 AM here in the U.S. most places switched over from standard time to daylight savings (i.e., summer) time.

The clocked moved ahead from 2 am → 3 am, skipping the entire 2 am hour, my setup included.

However, on the hourly flight aware stats (the grid with the blue boxes of varying colors based on how many flights/positions you got for that hour) shows flights/positions that entire night. 1am, 2 am, 3 am, etc. etc. And it also shows the correct time now (i.e., it isn’t an hour off).

this is a bug I assume, but how does it have data for an hour that didn’t exist yet is still recording hourly data correctly on that graph?

or am I over thinking this.

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We work with UTC almost everywhere, including when we record stats data, and any conversion to local time happens on the output side when the stats page is generated. I assume the stats page is not getting this conversion to local time quite right for the discontinuous-local-time case. If you set your timezone on the website to UTC it should be a bit more obvious where the data’s coming from.

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Got it. I’ll check. My system time itself is correct. I’ll look into the flightaware settings

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