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Daylight saving issue RAX70
Hi all, I am in Auckland New Zealand. My TZ is GMT+12:00 with daylight saving now. I tick "Automatically adjust for daylight saving time". It doesn't apply daylight saving on the RAX70. I tr...
Netgear Nighthawk Mesh MR60 wifi 6 - Daylight Savings kicking in too early
Problem: router has been disconnecting/losing connectivity for about a week. I remember incorrect time on my old routers was often the problem and yes my router shows my Eastern USA/Canada time as 1 hour behind actual time. 1 week too early (Daylight Savings is to kick in Sunday Nov. 7, 2021 @2 am).
I tried turning off/on automatic daylight savings time, tried using a different NTP server from default Netgear one etc. But my time remains 1 hour off from actual.
Then I updated my firmware to latest Firmware Version V1.0.6.116_2.0.54 for My Router: Nighthawk MR60
I think my prior version was 1.0.6.102.
None of the above helped.
I think they know the issue and doesn't have any plan to fix it.
They asked me to get refund. Looks they don't care what customers report, as long as it's not big bugs.
Very bad service and waste my time.
So being off by a few days is that important?
I guess, maybe return it and find something else.
As in my above post, my internet keeps disconnecting possibly just like it does for people in the other thread https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Daylight-Savings-Time-NTP-DNS-Issues/m-p/2073929.
Seems that DST issue causes the DNS issues, so once a day for a week my internet is disrupted every morning.
I find this issue is important enough when my internet connectivity gets disrupted every time DST changes twice a year, every year, and I have to fiddle with time zone settings as a work around. I've had this disruption last a week, and now that DST actually changed, the router's time and actual current time are synced up. I think we can expect this to recur until a firmware fix comes out.
As for the other alternative that was suggested in this thread, I'm not sure that it's possible to return my router at this time. I'd rather have it fixed and not have to go shopping around for another router, especially since it's not unfair to expect an expensive mesh router to work out of the box.
Another workaround is you have to change the TZ manually to match your real time. I changed to GMT+13 instead of GMT+12 during daylight saving.
