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Why is the Time ALWAYS Wrong?
Just like the title says, the Time on my XR1000v2 (with the latest firmware) is ALWAYS wrong. There are two places to set it; NTP settings under Administation Menu and also the 3 dots in the upper corner then Advanced and Time Zone and no matter what I set, it's always an hour off, either 1 hour early or 1 hour late. I set them to CENTRAL TIME ZONE (GMT -06:00) which is the actual time zone I am in and turn on Automatically adjust for daily saving time, it shows that it's only 8:45pm when in fact it's 9:45pm here now. If I turn off Automatically adjust for daylight saving time, it changes nothing at all, still shows 8:45pm. If I set it for Eastern time Zone (GMT -05:00) then it jumps 2 hours forward and shows that it's 10:45pm when it's 9:45pm here, which would be correct for Eastern Time Zone but odd that just going from -6 to -5 GMT it jumps TWO hours which is clearly wrong. There also shows to be two locations between Central and Eastern time Zones, though not in the USA so I even tried those, the first one still has it an hour behind my actual time, and the second one puts it an hour ahead of my actual time.
I have tried using both the Default Netgear NTP Server, and also tried using the "time.nist.gov" time server but no change so it's clearly an issue in the routers programming.
So apperantly there is literally no way to set this thing to have the correct time if you happen to live in the Central Time Zone of the United States... Crazy. And some of the routers features (Scheduling etc.) rely on it having the correct time to work properly.
Anyone know of a way to fix this?
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Is there a DST check box?
Yes, as I said in my post "...and turn on Automatically adjust for daylight saving time, it shows that it's only 8:45pm when in fact it's 9:45pm here now. If I turn off Automatically adjust for daylight saving time, it changes nothing at all, still shows 8:45pm."
DST is just an abbreviation for the daylight savings time that I was reffering to, checking/un-checking box does not change anything. It has no affect at all.
Ya we know what DST stands for.
Seems like that option may be broke or NTP service isn't working right.
FW up to date on the router? https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Pro-Gaming-Routers/New-XR1000-Version-2-Firmware-Version-1-1-0-16-Released/td-p/2319780/jump-to/first-unread-messageYou have a v2 so not sure if this effects v1's. I can check mine.
