Time measure does not automatically adjust for DST

[Bekarfel]

Hello, Daylight Savings Time passed last night, and this morning I found that the time reported by the time measure did not update during the night when the system clock updated.

[jsmorley]

It requires that the skin be refreshed to see the change.

Sent from my Kindle Fire HDX

[moshi]

this would do the required refresh automatically:

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[MeasureTZName]
Measure=Registry
RegHKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
RegKey=SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
RegValue=ActiveTimeBias
OnChangeAction=[!Refresh "#CURRENTCONFIG#"]

[jsmorley]

this would do the required refresh automatically:

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[MeasureTZName]
Measure=Registry
RegHKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
RegKey=SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
RegValue=ActiveTimeBias
OnChangeAction=[!Refresh "#CURRENTCONFIG#"]

Nice...

[jsmorley]

The Time measure currently gets the local "timzone" / "offset" when the measure is "constructed", which in Rainmeter terms is when the skin is loaded or refreshed. We are looking at what any possible performance impact there might be with checking that on every update of the measure, and this might be made more automatic in the future, but for now, moshi's Registry measure is a decent solution. Just add it to your clock skins, and the skin will properly follow DST changes without a manual refresh.

[bobgrosh]

Calender also no longer works.

[moshi]

Calender also no longer works.

http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17135

[Bekarfel]

Thanks for all the replies, and thanks for the code moshi!

[poiru]

I forgot to mention that this has been fixed for the next Rainmeter beta release.