I used to not use the Automated Clock Check feature in LoggerNet, but over the past couple of months I started using it. So far I've been pleased. I have all my dataloggers set to clock check on a daily basis and they will automatically sync with the server clock if deviation is greater than 59 seconds.
Well in preparation for the change back to DST, I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to lose any data. So I found that there are LoggerNet clock settings that will ignore daylight saving time adjustments.
A couple of days before the switch to DST, I went into LoggerNet and selected
"Use local time without correction for daylight saving time".
After the switch, I verified that my server time in LN was indeed still -5 GMT instead of -4 GMT and thought all was good.
For most of my dataloggers, all was good, but there are several that LoggerNet messed up on. LN set the clock forward on one CR206, then set it back on the same day.
So, at 2300 on 14 March 2010, LN set the clock forward by one hour. Then at 0100 on 15 March 2010, LN sets the clock back an hour. Here are the timestamps for that logger.
3/14/2010 22:45
3/14/2010 23:00
3/15/2010 0:15
3/15/2010 0:30
3/15/2010 0:45
3/15/2010 1:00
3/15/2010 0:15
3/15/2010 0:30
And it appears to be doing this every day now.
Any ideas on what might be going wrong? I checked the clock settings for the affected and unaffected loggers and they are identical, so I'm not sure why this issue is affecting some loggers and not others.
EDIT: Another piece of information. I have four different PakBusPorts, the problems are occurring on three of the four PakBusPorts. The fourth PB Port has not had any clock problems. I checked the associated IPPort and PakBusPort settings and they are the same for all except for the PakBus addresses for the PakBusPorts.
* Last updated by: lespedeza on 3/18/2010 @ 1:16 PM *
What version of LoggerNet?
Could there be some conflict with another computer setting time in the datalogger?
In the C:\Campbellsci\LoggerNet\Logs directory there is a Trans*.log that contains information on clock set and clock check events. In those events, the first clock value is the datalogger clock, the second value is the LoggerNet server clock, and the following value is the offset, in seconds, between the two clocks. Looking at these values may help to provide insight into what is going on.
Dana W.