RSLogix 5000 v20, ALMD's, FTView SE v6 - DST Issue

I've encountered an issue I am not sure how to deal with. The alarming on my FTViewv6 SE alarms are all behind 1 hour. I've verified that the PLC's (v20) time is correct, the time in the PC is about 30sec from the PLC. but what I realized is the time in the ALMD instruction doesn't seem to acknowledge the fact that DST time is effect and that it needs to add +1hr

Here are my PLC properties;



Here is one of many ALMD's and what happens if I try to change the timezone manually within the ALMD;


Other than disabling DST and setting the time manually (not an option as the plant I work at has hundreds of PLC's), how can I get this resolved?

I've read through portions of the FTView user manual and I can't find anything that describes this.

anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks for reading.

Vin

wait.., the properties you are showing are for plc, what about time properties for FTview SE server ??

Where do I find that? you'll have to give me the exact file path as the vendor of these systems deleted all the installation path from the start menu.

And looking from my PC I can't find anything other than the basic SE HMI Tag Alarm Log Setup.. and there nothing related to time settings there.

And I forgot to mention these are all SE Local installations. Not distributed.

Vin

It's located on desktop right corner on the bottom, press where date and time is shown and there you can find there if Daylight saving is enable or not.

Ah, yes, I checked the PC properties as well for DST. it's enabled properly in the PC, see pic.



But I can't find any specific settings for any "Alarm Server".

Vin

No, the server use internal time properties not plc time. However a good policy is to sync plcs time and server time at least once a day. There is an application for that.

I know about the sync utility, I just have bigger fish to fry...

any other thoughts on this.. anyone?

Vin

Are you sure server time and plcs time are the same right now ??

What do you mean by "Server" time?

The PLC and PC times are within 30 seconds of each other. Both have DST enabled.

What else is there?

Big Picture I just captured;



Vin

I figured it out. in the registry DisableAutoDayLightTimeSet was set to True.

This must had been over-writing what the menu (pictured above) check box was doing.

I set it to 0 and re-booted and the PC's are fine.

Vin