Daylight Saving (GMT vs BST) & Myriad Introduction

If you are using Myriad in a country that operates different time standards in Summer and Winter, then twice a year the clocks will either jump forward by an hour or repeat the same hour twice to switch between the two time standards.

In the UK, the winter months are covered by GMT while the summer months use BST which is an hour ahead of GMT. In practice this means that at the end of each March, the clocks jump from 1am to 2am on the last Sunday of the month and repeat the 1am hour on the last Sunday of October to switch back to GMT.

This has a number of implications for any station using Myriad to run automated programs particularly if the automated programming includes ?running to time? for external events such as satellite news.Unfortunately, there are a number of factors that can influence when your Windows? actually changes the time on your PC which means that it is very hard to predict the exact sequence of events and plan accordingly.Before you get started, double click on the clock in the bottom right hand corner of the Windows? start bar (or sys tray), click on the Time Zones tab and un-tick Automatically Adjust Clock For Daylight Saving. 

Windows Daylight Saving Settings Image

The best thing to do in both of the time switches is to not attempt to ?run to time? or take any external timed events such as news for a couple of hours either side of the switch. That way, should Windows?, the Atomic Clock (a radio controlled clock used for accurately setting time) or the system bios disagree on exactly when to change the time or cause the time to jump around for a while (both of which we have seen in the past), Myriad should be just fine if you follow the following instructions.

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Liam Burke - Broadcast Radio Ltd

Email: liamb@broadcastradio.com

Telephone: +44 1482 383700