Daylight Savings With PlayoutONE
To deal with Daylight Savings In PlayoutONE follow the guide below:
Autumn Fallback
- Clocks fallback at 01:59:59 to 01:00:00
- Remove all Time markers and RunToTime commands in the 01:00 Hour.
- Your Music Scheduling software should create two hours worth of content in the 01:00 playlist. PlayoutONE will then happily play the contents of the 01:00 playlist as normal.
- If using AutoDJ then it will automatically reselect your 01:00 hour when the clocks fallback.
Spring Forward
- Clocks spring forward at 00:59:59 to 02:00:00
- Therefore your Music Scheduling software should not schedule a 01:00 playlist. This allows PlayoutONE to skip over the 01:00:00 naturally into the 02:00:00 hour.
- If using AutoDJ then it will automatically select your 02:00:00 hour when the clocks spring forward at 00:59:59
Using Music1?
Find out how to accomplish the above by reading this blog post from Steve Warren.
Using Music Master?
Music Master doubles the 1 am hour. The only thing they suggest doing is removing any time marker commands (as above) that you might have in the middle of this extra-long hour. Delete it in the Schedule editor. This may also have an adverse effect on your extremely small categories.