DFW Daylight Savings Time Transition and ATSC

March 2020

Daylight savings time begins on 8 March which means that stations should begin sending PSIP data to that effect on 9 Febraury. The details on how this process should be managed are in ATSC A/65, Annex A and FCC regulations require that all except low power stations follow the standard.

8 Feb.

Another early start.

WFAA (RF 8)WFAA DST change information

KERA (RF 14)KERA DST change information

KTXD (RF 23)KTXD DST change information

KPXD (RF 25)KPXD DST change information

KDTN (RF 29)KDTN DST change information

A couple stations waited till late in the day Saturday but that doesn't make it less wrong.

KFWD (RF 9)KFWD DST change information

KDTX (RF 21)KDTX DST change information

KMPX gets a special shout out because they have two PSIP generators running putting out conflicting data:

KMPX (RF 30)KMPX DST change information

9 Feb.

Being the day when this should happen.

KTXA (RF 18)KTXA DST change information

KTVT (RF 19)KTVT DST change information

KXAS (RF 24)KXAS DST change information

KXTX (RF 36)KXTX DST change information

Only four stations get it right.

8 March

As usual, performance was variable. Some stations made the change at 2AM CST as expected (a few waited an hour or two) but a few did other things.

Two stations (KDTX and KFWD) changed the day and hour data to zero at 8PM last night. Then changed DST status to in DST at 2AM.

K07AAD gave the whole DS_status thing a miss and just changed their broadcast time by an hour.

KMPX was very special as now one of their PSIP generators is in DST (time is 27465 seconds fast) and the other isn't. (with time 514 seconds slow)

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