Timezone Confusion!

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ytalofelipe
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Timezone Confusion!

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Ok, i contacted ICMarkets to ask what's their timezone. They responded "To align the daily chart candles with New York close (5pm ET) IC Markets server time and charts are GMT + 2 or GMT + 3 when daylight savings is in effect."

But on Tickstory there's no GMT + 2 or GMT + 3, instead there's many city's around the world which UTC term, instead GMT, and many city's which the same UTC timezone, if i have to choose UTC +3 it's very frustrating to know wtf i'm doing. I'm very confused, and i have no idea which one i should use. Please, someone help me!

tickstory
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Re: Timezone Confusion!

Post by tickstory »

Hi Ytalofelipe,

Maybe this thread will help: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2353 (search for "IC Markets" in our forum for more).

Thanks.

ytalofelipe
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Re: Timezone Confusion!

Post by ytalofelipe »

Thank you!
How do i deactivate the Daylight savings to be always On? Because i want it to be OFF for some of city's of "Adjust timezone" List. And looks like all are stuck in Daylight savings, without option to deactivate it.

tickstory
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Re: Timezone Confusion!

Post by tickstory »

Hi Ytalofelipe,

The timezone information is taken directly from Windows so they cannot be edited. There are only 2 custom time-zones that have been created specifically for traders which are at the top of the list (European trading and New York trading).

If a suitable time-zone doesn't exist in your list, it means that the time-zone is not used by any country/city in the world and would be considered "custom". You might be able to find something suitable by looking at a matching UTC offset and then seeing if there is one selection that doesn't use DST.

Before that, if a suitable time-zone doesn't exist in the list, I would be asking the question about what you are trying to do.

Hope this helps.

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