RDS SQL Instance Time Zone for UK Daylight Savings

Question

I need to create an RDS SQL Instance with a time zone that is tolerant of UK daylight savings changes.  From the RDS documentation, I can see there is a time zone called "GMT Standard Time" that is tolerant of UK daylight savings changes.  If I select this time zone does the RDS SQL instance time automatically change in line with UK daylight savings?

Accepted Answer

Hi,

According to
https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/rds-change-time-zone

> It’s a best practice to use the UTC time zone at the database layer. Because UTC doesn't observe daylight savings (DST), you don’t have to adjust the time later when it shifts.

Hope it helps and if it does I would appreciate the answer to be accepted so that community can benefit for clarity, thanks ;)

RDS SQL Instance Time Zone for UK Daylight Savings

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