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How is daylight savings time (DST) handled?

April 26, 2017daylight DST handled savings time

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How is daylight savings time (DST) handled?

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Time changes due to daylight savings time or summer time should be handled automatically, if your time zone is set correctly. ProZ.com uses the public domain “zoneinfo” database to track rules for daylight savings time in different jurisdictions. See http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo for details. If you do not want to wait until the timezone database is updated with the new data for automatic DST changes, you can temporarily pick a different timezone with the correct GMT offset. To do so, go to your time/date preferences, underneath the drop-down list of timezones, and click [Show all]. Then select one of the other timezones labeled as yours. For example, if your timezone is GMT+5 and it changes to GMT+6 for DST, you can temporarily select a timezone that is GMT+6.