Time zone adjustment for devices in British Columbia due to adoption of year-round daylight saving time

Environment

• Knox Manage
• Knox Service Plugin

Overview

With British Columbia’s recent adoption of permanent year-round daylight saving time (Pacific Time (PCT), UTC-7), starting on November 1st, 2026, clocks no longer fall back to UTC-8. To ensure devices in your organization reflect this change and remain accurate, we recommend you set the value of the Set Automatic time zone policy to True in your Knox Service Plugin configuration.

If you’re using Knox Manage as your EMM solution:

1. Navigate to your Knox Manage console.

2. Click on the profile name you want to modify, then edit it.

3. Navigate to your Knox Service Plugin configuration.

4. Configure the following Device-wide policies:

   Policy	Value
   Enable device policy controls	True
   Date Time Change > Enable Date Time Policy controls	True
   Date Time Change > Set Automatic time zone	True

5. Save and push the profile to your device fleet.

By applying these policies, devices automatically detect and adjust to the correct time zone, enabling compliance with British Columbia’s new time zone regulations.