Funny. I don't have a problem with dst with a Raspi and a Acurite station. Im guessing that since weewx works with Epoc times it doesn't matter much. It sounds like maybe a driver issue.
As to a service that tells you when Dst starts/ends in a given locale, I haven't been able to find one. I've been looking. On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 2:55 AM Mike Revitt <[email protected]> wrote: > I hit that twice yearly daylight savings issue again today. and tried all > my usual fixes. > > There is a thread > <https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/AsuYQBdI1Ls/m/-YT6LIp8CwAJ> on > this but it is getting long and unwieldy. > > But before porting to the Rasberry Pi, I never had an issue with the > spring change, only autumn, but 2 years in a row now WeeWX has stopped at > 02:00 am during spring change. > > Last year I managed to fix it by simply stopping and starting WeeWX, but > this year that failed to work. > > Doing wee_device --dump just resulted this error, which looks like a data > corruption > ERROR weewx.drivers.vantage: LOOP try #1; error: Expected to read 99 > chars; got 0 instead > > So I had to restore the database and run wee_device —clear-memory > > This fixes the problem but results in me losing data. > > What I want is to be able to detect the clock change some how and then > create a cron job to stop WeeWX at clock change, run wee_device > —clear-memory then re-start start it 61 minutes later, that will work for > summer and winter changes. This will minimise data lose and stop me having > to go through this every year. > > Does anyone know of a way to find out when day light savings is due to > happen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/fcf9222f-4239-4422-962e-0f11193aafb0n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/fcf9222f-4239-4422-962e-0f11193aafb0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAA1SM20L9OArGnYNew3iZuygQ2ajfRDkvGo%2BBrqj0bMyvF9QDw%40mail.gmail.com.
