Technical Tip: How to disable daylight saving time (DST) feature

Description

This article describes how to disable daylight saving time (DST).

This feature is enabled by default, but in some cases, the end user may need to disable it for various reasons. For example: if the DST is not applicable to that specific time zone anymore, or to standardize the logging information across the logging devices with FortiAnalzyers that may by located in different time zone across the globe. 

Scope

FortiAnalyzer.

Solution

To disable DST from the GUI, navigate to Dashboards -> Status -> System Information widget -> edit system time -> Disable 'Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes':

To disable the DST from the CLI:

config system global
    set daylightsavetime disable
end

To verify the setting from the CLI:

get system global

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daylightsavetime : disable

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