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This weekend (Sunday) the clock goes to DST (Daylight Saving Time / Summertime) here in NL. Sunday morning we skip one hour. 02:00 becomes 03:00.
Currently I live in what we call "wintertime", that is UTC + 1 hr. When we go to summertime, we are running on UTC + 2 hr until the last Sunday in October. Then we go back to Wintertime.
I've always hated this as a human. But not just that, I've seen many, many software problems througout the years. From radio stations going silent at that point to POS systems not running at al because the day suddenly have 23 hours instead of 24. (and in October the same: 25 hrs instead of 24).

So, here's my question: I happen to have a gig upcoming Saturday night / Sunday, and I have been elected to see the clock go from 02:00 to 03:00 while operating FreeStyler... Will it continue to run normally? Or will it go crazy?
Now I'm going to test this tonight or tomorrow night just to be sure, until then I'll be happy to see your reactions.

Another disadvantage of this DST shift is that the night is one hour shorter, so instead of the party ending at 03:00 it ends on 04:00. I get home at earliest 05:00. The "next" morning I have to be at a birthday party. Please provide a good cup of coffee then.
Thinking of not going to bed at all.

Well... I did'nt have a reasonable scale of time to do a test before the gig... So... This test had become a live test.

There I was, Sunday morning at 1:59 AM. Knowing that in about 1 minute the time goes to 3:00 AM instead of 2:00 AM.
I had fresh in mind my FreeStyler (beta) crashed on me just 2 hours before. Luckily I have the Enttec PRO interface, so the fixtures all stayed on and in their last position and other params. (Until I restarted FS, then the default values are loaded... And most of the things go out, in my case all, one press of a button, and yes, light again). Little side path.
Back to 1:59 AM. "Hope it will stay running". Knowing that a Chamsys console was lying around doing nothing a few feet away calmed me down a bit.
Then as if the DJ was fucking with me, exactly at the point of 3:00 AM switch, the sound goes dead for about 1 second. That whole 1 second took about ages for me. A lot of thinking was going on in my head: Did poineer CD players have a DST switch too? Did all of the 3 players running at that same time died instantly? Why am I hearing no audio? Maybe the pioneer mixer used had a DST shift bug also? Or the audio processor used for the Nexo speakers? Or the amps? And then there was sound again. Turns out it was the DJ putting in a nicely timed break into his mix.
Few seconds later, still confused on what just happened: Oh wait! FreeStyler is still working good!


And I keep on going flashing the blinders, which were AWESOME by the way. I've never used Svoboda lights before.
Similar as these:

Contains 9x 250W lights, which are spots. Had 2 of these big units hanging around as blinders... Man, that light (and heat...)...
One light is about the size of an PAR64 can. Used these 2 units to blind about 400 people.
I could have blind 4000 with them. But, in fact, it was my wish for this gig to have a really oversized blinder.

So the stats for that gig:
1. Blinders: succeeded
2. Pioneer players: don't have a DST offset bug
3. Neither does the pioneer mixer and the Nexo processor
4. FreeStyler does'nt care.

uhhhhh, nice real life histories!!!!

Me like, especially the "no sound" part where you almost were shitting in your pants . Keep them coming