User level: Level 1 (12 points)Can you set automations in Home to NOT change with daylight savings time?
I have various automations set to turn lights on and off for my reptiles. I don't want the time to adjust with the time change. My reptiles know nothing about the clock. They know hours of daylight and when the sun comes up shouldn't be an hour later or earlier than it was yesterday LOL
Posted on Nov 10, 2026 9:28 AM
User level: Level 8 (38,420 points)Nov 10, 2026 10:23 AM in response to Cathy_geckosandplants
This all depends on where you live. You could instead choose sunrise and sunset or if that doesn’t work you can use a time zone near you (on the same time as you now) that hasn’t been changing the clocks. I live in British Columbia and can no longer use Vancouver time on my Hue lights because we opted out of changing the clocks. I changed my location to the Yukon Territory in Canada. So far Hue hasn’t adapted to us opting out. However I’m doing this in the Hue App not Apple Homekit. This way I’m not changing my location on everything Apple. You’ll have to work out something like that because there is no setting to ignore changing the clocks.
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256392066