D130 doorbell does not switch to daylight savings time
D130 doorbell does not switch to daylight savings time
My doorbell and phone (with Tapo app) are both in the same time zone as America/New_York, with the same rules for daylight savings time. Device info says America/New_York UTC-05:00 and does not have an option to recognize daylight savings time UTC-04:00.
Early this morning we switched to daylight savings time. The Tapo app gets confused by all videos that were recorded after the switch. The doorbell still thinks we're in standard time so the time stamps are 1 hour off, but the app knows the correct time zone. The app gives a notification with the correct date and time, but the app cannot find the correct video on the device.
When I search forums here and elsewhere in the internet, it seems the Tapo company says that the device will automatically switch between standard time and daylight savings time if the time zone is a location that has daylight savings time. This is not true. Today the device did not switch.
Does anyone know how to set the doorbell correctly?
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I did not reboot my router. Before my first post, I checked my router, and it already had the correct time in daylight savings time. My router was set to time zone America/Toronto which Tapo does not have, but it doesn't matter, because America/New_York is the same time zone.
Maybe, I guess, Tapo devices don't really know about daylight savings time but after several hours they get the time and date from the router, so after several hours they make the switch. However, I think the Tapo app (on the phone) does know about daylight savings time, and it needs around a day to solve its confusion and retrieve correct videos from devices.
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I've no idea if the reboot was what actually fixed it. It could have been a coincidence.
If I'm reading the ONVIF docs correctly, times are supposed to be stored as UTC and the correct offsets need to be applied according to time zone. Maybe there's a minor bug somwhere in the display chain.
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