Cubase users, PC or MAC (daylight saving tonight !) beware

[SafeandSound Mastering]

Slightly late...but I just remembered to turn off the "Automatically adjust for daylight saving" on my new system here to avoid the plug in rescan rigmarole. I always found that rather alarming with Cubase.

Just thought I would post on here in case you wish to do the same.

I am quite happy to live with the wrong time on the PC as I wear a watch on my wrist for those purposes.

[RichardT]

Slightly late...but I just remembered to turn off the "Automatically adjust for daylight saving" on my new system here to avoid the plug in rescan rigmarole. I always found that rather alarming with Cubase.

Just thought I would post on here in case you wish to do the same.

I am quite happy to live with the wrong time on the PC as I wear a watch on my wrist for those purposes.

Thanks! I just let Cubase do its thing.

When I worked in commercial software, all the servers were turned off for an hour when the clocks went back to avoid chaos with timestamps. The systems recorded everything in UTC, so no problem there, but interpreting the timestamps for the user into their own timeframe would be problematic.

I’m guessing what Cubase is doing is trying to prevent something similar.

[OneWorld]

Won't be long before Christmas then , the days start getting longer again and it can't come too soon

[SafeandSound Mastering]

I believe I still do this cause something went awry (a long time back now though) and had to reinstall or had some form of hassle.

[The Elf]

It's no big deal - just let Cubase re-scan your plug-ins and you're done.

[Kwackman]

I've never been aware of this.
Is this a PC only thing?
Or is it only if you're using it at the time when the clocks change?
I ran Cubase, on a Mac, this morning and there was no re-scanning.

[The Elf]

I've just fired up Cubase (13.0.50, Win 11) and also saw no plug-in scan. TBH I don't recall seeing a long scan for a while.

Maybe it's been fixed some time in the past?

[Music Wolf]

No problems here either.

[SafeandSound Mastering]

Maybe it just irks me slightly that it is a historic automated process that is not under my control. Notwithstanding Windows updates of course which are precisely the same. (though existing / older machine that is switched off intentionally here.)

Maybe in new versions this does not happen. (I run V9 here which is quite old and before I changed the setting it annoyed me every time it rescanned.)

I found it highly disturbing.