How to set Day light saving time in Torizon

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Hi,

How to set daylight saving time in Torizon?
by following command
#timedatectl status
I got below status
Local time: Mon 2025-09-01 14:46:51 UTC
Universal time: Mon 2025-09-01 14:46:51 UTC
RTC time: Mon 2025-09-01 14:46:51
Time zone: Universal (UTC, +0000)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no

But there is no DST like below

timedatectl

  Local time: Mon 2014-05-26 11:29:40 UTC

Universal time: Mon 2014-05-26 11:29:40 UTC
RTC time: Mon 2014-05-26 11:29:39
Timezone: Universal (UTC, +0000)
NTP enabled: n/a
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
DST active: n/a

as mentioned in Real-Time Clock / RTC (Linux) | Toradex Developer Center

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I don’t have specific information about configuring daylight saving time in Torizon OS in the available sources. The sources focus on device metrics, networking connectivity, and offline time provisioning, but don’t cover daylight saving time configuration.

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Normally you just setup correct timezone and time will follow local DST rules.

list of timezones:
timedatectl list-timezones

choose your timezone
timedatectl set-timezones YourTZ

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Dear @khaled.hassan,

As @Edward mentioned you will likely have to should set it to BST instead of UTC.
Please let us know how you fare with this.

Best regards,
Collin

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Hi @collin.tx,
In list I found etc/UTC time but there is no BST I guess. By BST did you mean GMT-1 ?

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Dear @khaled.hassan,

Likely you will have to use GMT+1 during daylight saving times.
This might be a another generic suggestion on how you can set it: sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London

Best regards,
Collin