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If the old thermostat wasn't Internet-connected, it might have had problems automatically adjusting also if DST rules get changed.
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I remember trying to adjust a set of church clock chimes for daylight saving. The chimes were operated by an ultra-modern digital system that was supposed to correct and adjust itself over the Internet. Nevertheless, at a quarter past seven in the evening, the display on the console was still showing 2015.
It took us a few minutes to work out that we were looking at the year ...
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It's quite possible the old thermostat was a first gen Nest or something that would have always gotten the correct time from the internet, but this new system requires its own brand of "communicating" thermostat. Those things are annoying because you can't use any 3rd party smart thermostat like Ecobee.
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And that is why you newer buy mission critical systems that use proprietary vendor locked control mechanisms.
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Many years ago, I bought a clock that had the cool feature to automatically adjust for DST. This was in the age of "dumb" devices when only computers were connected to the internet, so the time change was embedded in the firmware. Shortly after that, the government changed the DST schedule (so people would buy more candy on Halloween or something like that)... so the clock automatically changed itself on the wrong days, and I still had to manually change it for DST.
I still have that clock, but now it lives in the guest room where no one cares that it's wrong for a few weeks.
DST is TRWTF.
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Stay hopeful Ellis! If they've done their job right, then "Eastern" might just take care of the time changes for you. It's not clear why they would have "EST" as an option, especially without a matching "EDT", but if "Eastern" is the equivalent of "ET" ("Eastern time")--and if they've programmed it correctly--then this could be one of those nice set-and-forget situations.
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This post reminds me that I'm soon going to have to change the clock on my microwave oven that was made back in 2012... (No, it's not an IoT microwave. Geez. It's a microwave oven, so why does anyone think it might need to talk to anything except itself...)
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It's entirely likely that you have to fix this in their app on your phone.
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I have a very expensive gas range at home. One of the features it has is app connectivity (I did not buy this appliance because it had this feature, I bought it because we were hosting Thanksgiving that year and it has a good quality double-oven, and plenty of stovetop space). There are a few moderately neat things the app can do, like give me an alert when the oven comes up to the set temp.
However, the most annoying thing is that the clock on the range has to be set manually. The device is connected to the Internet, so it should be trivial to do. Not only does the clock not set itself, but setting the clock isn't one of the features the app offers. So, my very expensive "smart appliance" still requires me to do a ridiculous button dance twice a year to keep the clock correct.