topic Trying again - Jerusalem timezone issue in Arlo Pro 2

Trying again - Jerusalem timezone issue

shemsha — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:59:45 GMT

Trying to start a new discussion since it's annoying and sounds easy to handle.

Please see more info here.

https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Ultra/GMT-3-Israeli-Daylight-Saving-Time-Timezone-issues/td-p/1706210

In short - Jerusalem timezone is being wrongly computed as plain UTC.
If I want my schedule to arm at midnight, I have to set my schedule to arm at 9PM.
Jerusalem is currently UTC+3 (summertime) so I have to schedule to 9PM to get it armed midnight.
Once we are back to wintertime (UTC+2), I have to set my schedule to arm at 10pm.

This is really annoying. Help would be highly appreciated.

Re: Trying again - Jerusalem timezone issue

StephenB — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:39:20 GMT

@shemsha wrote:

In short - Jerusalem timezone is being wrongly computed as plain UTC.
If I want my schedule to arm at midnight, I have to set my schedule to arm at 9PM.
Jerusalem is currently UTC+3 (summertime) so I have to schedule to 9PM to get it armed midnight.
Once we are back to wintertime (UTC+2), I have to set my schedule to arm at 10pm.

Obviously it should be fixed, but I can see why Arlo wouldn't make it a priority, since they don't offer subscriptions in Israel.

Have you tried a different workaround? For instance, select Athens as the base station timezone. Shifting into summertime would be off by 2 days, but that might be a short enough gap that you can live with it.

Re: Trying again - Jerusalem timezone issue

shemsha — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:44:06 GMT

Thank you. Yes, a different timezone is a good option, might be better than what I am doing.
Appreciate your reply, still hope it might get resolved at some point.