Sunrise / sunset wrong after daylight savings

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to sort the sunrise / sunset time being an hour after daylight savings time kicked in for us in New Zealand last night? The time itself on the watch is correct and so are GPS tracked activities, it only appears the be the sunrise / sunset data etc.

Thanks,

Scott.

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Garmin - Chris over 2 years ago +1 verified

Hi Scott.

Does your new time difference correct itself when you sync using your Garmin Connect APP through your smartphone, sync using Garmin Express on your computer, acquiring GPS for an outdoor activity…

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0 TopGuns over 2 years ago

Sorry, the first line should read being an hour out after daylight savings time.

0 Dr Phil over 2 years ago in reply to TopGuns

Garmin will sort it soon enough. Nothing we can do until they do. I seem to recall this comes right after 24hrs. Contact Garmin Support directly to speed up the process if you want a quicker response.

0 KrapfenKringel over 2 years ago

That has always been this way on this day. Sun calculation happens at 0:00, time shift happens after that so it will be off for this one day. Programmers did not think of that.

0 KrapfenKringel over 2 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Yea sure...soon. :D After this being a thing for years...they don't care.

0 MisterFrag over 2 years ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

Properly designed, sunrise and sunset should be calculated as UTC (Universal Time Coordinated), and then displayed using the local time zone. If they did that, the change to and from DST would have no effect.

+1 Garmin - Chris over 2 years ago

Hi Scott.

Does your new time difference correct itself when you sync using your Garmin Connect APP through your smartphone, sync using Garmin Express on your computer, acquiring GPS for an outdoor activity or when saving your location waypoint, or when you go into your System > Time menu and use Time Sync?

- My Garmin Watch Displays the Incorrect Time

0 silentvoyager over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

I have a potentially related issue but not caused by daylight savings.

I've just noticed that my watch shows sunrise at 2 pm and sunset at 2 am, which means both times are off by 7 hours. I am not sure when exactly that started happening but likely in the last few days.

However the local time is correct.

0 silentvoyager over 2 years ago in reply to silentvoyager

silentvoyager said:
I've just noticed that my watch shows sunrise at 2 pm and sunset at 2 am, which means both times are off by 7 hours.

To answer my own question, apparently this is a known issue:

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/fenix-7-series/295729/sunrise-sunset-times-showing-in-gmt-not-local-time

I've just cycled power and it seems to be back to normal. I am surprised by what kind of bugs I run into from time to time.