DFW Daylight Savings Time Transition and ATSC

Fall 2026

Daylight savings time ends on 1 November which means that stations should begin sending PSIP data to that effect on 2 October. 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. But they have a poor record of following the standard and the FCC has an even worse record of enforcing it.

1 October

As usual, someone jumps the gun.

KFWD (RF 9)KFWD DST change information

KAZD (RF 31)KAZD DST change information

Not as bad as in the spring but February being a short month really confuses people.

2 October

Starting at 9PM is still a day early:

KDTX (RF 21)KDTX DST change information

As usual, a surprisingly small number of stations started the process on time:

KHFD (RF 13)KHFD DST change information

KXAS (RF 24)KXAS DST change information

KDTN (RF 29)KDTN DST change information

KUVN (RF 33)KUVN DST change information

KXTX (RF 36)KXTX DST change information

3 October

Better late than never:

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

KFAA (RF 30)KFAA DST change information

But still too many stations that should know better haven't set their day/time data.

History

Since I no longer have the space limitataions with my Earthlink pages I can make data from previous transitions available here rather than rely on the Internet Archive.

2015 spring fall
2016 spring fall
2017 spring fall
2018 spring fall
2019 spring fall
2020 spring fall
2021 spring fall
2022 spring fall
2023 spring fall
2024 spring fall
2025 spring fall
2026 spring fall

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