Solved: Can I get a bot trigger time to respect DST? - Page 2

JBenjamin · 09-29-2023 09:22 AM

I have a bot I want to run at 8:00am locally. But the the only timezone choices for a daily schedule are standard time. From my other searches, it appears that the bots only really know UTC, and the "timezone" settings are just a fixed offset and don't account for daylight saving.

Is there any way to get the bot trigger time to respect DST, or do I have to go in and manually change the "timezone" offset twice a year?

JBenjamin

Follow up, Nov. 5: I set the bot time zone to "(GMT-07:00) Mountain Standard Time" back in October when we were in DST. Today, the bot adjusted to the return to Standard Time. Hooray! On Sat. Nov 4 it ran at GMT-6, this morning (Sunday) after the time change it ran at GMT-7.

So apparently selecting your standard time zone is the correct way to go about it... even if you're currently on DST and it's very confusing. I wish this were either documented somewhere, or AppSheet would just give the time zones a better name (like, you know, the standardized TZ identifiers that already exist).

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