How do Tapo P100 and P110 devices handle daylight savings time?

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How do Tapo P100 and P110 devices handle daylight savings time?
How do Tapo P100 and P110 devices handle daylight savings time?
2022-10-26 03:29:47 - last edited 2024-01-15 03:28:33

 

I am curious how the Tapo P100 and Tapo P110 devices

and also the Tapo App handle daylight savings time.

 

I can see in the "Device Info" screen that my devices are set to "Europe/London" timezone.

I assume the devices have a built in clock (to allow them to run on schedules etc.)

 

At the moment UK is in "BST" (British Summer Time) which is "GMT +1"

 

 

If I've specified a schedule on my P100 (or P110) devices,

 

what will happen

when "Summer" i.e. Daylight Savings Time ends and the timezone and clocks change by one hour?

 

- Will the devices themselves automatically adjust their clocks?

- Will the schedule adjust accordingly or stay fixed to its current times?

 

(only relevant to P110):

- How will this affect the "Summer/Winter" and "Time-Of-Use" settings that are now available in the Tapo App

 

I only need to specify Summer/Winter due to UK "Daylight Savings Time" where the clocks change by 1 hour (but the off-peak and on-peak times do not)

otherwise (in my case) there's no other change in schedule (same every day, weekends, all year round)

 

So in the app I need to manually setup Summer/Winter start end dates  (which change every year by the way)

and then setup different "time of use" schedules for summer/winter - just to account for the 1 hour time difference

 

Maybe useful options would be:

 

1) To be able to just set the time-of-use timetable in standard time "GMT" in my case   (or perhaps UTC +/- xx)

and a checkbox allowing user to specify whether the timetable should or should not change with daylight savings time?

2) automatically determine when daylight savings times start/end for the given timezone/country

3) with the "Schedule" times - again allow user to specify with each on/off event whether or not daylight savings time should be factored in or not

i.e. automatically adjust back/forward 1 hour on the appropriate dates for that country/timezone.

I don't really want to have to go re-program the scehdules 2x a year

 

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Re:How do Tapo P100 and P110 devices handle daylight savings time?
2022-11-11 11:13:02 - last edited 2024-01-15 03:28:33

  @TimMoss 

 

I am not sure how The P110 handles daylight saving time for scheduling, but for energy monitoring it seems a problem

 

Version 2.11.23 of the Android app allows (some) data export. The lines below are exported figures around DST. Prior to DST the time value is 00:00:00 after DST it is 23:00:00. 

 

2022/10/29 00:00:00    0.05
2022/10/30 00:00:00    0.468
2022/10/30 23:00:00    0.726
2022/10/31 23:00:00    0.581
 

I am not sure what this does with the calculations within the app, but probably needs to be addressed by tp-link.

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