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The clock a new install runs on

Nothing installed on a phone or a laptop changes the hour a quote is stamped with. The platform keeps its own server clock, the device keeps the operating system clock, and the two are separate readings that happen to share a screen. In Tbilisi the distance between them is four hours, in January and in July alike.

That distance explains the first surprise after a download: the daily candle does not begin at local midnight. It begins when the server day begins, which in Tbilisi terms is 04:00. Anyone checking the chart before breakfast is looking at a bar that opened a couple of hours earlier, not at yesterday finishing.

The device clock still matters for one thing. Sign-in codes are generated from the time on the handset, so a phone left on a manual setting that has drifted produces a code computed for the wrong minute. Automatic date and time removes that whole class of confusion before the first session starts.

One offset all year, while the sessions move

Georgia does not put the clocks forward in spring or back in autumn. London and New York do, and the hour bands drawn on the measured pages of this site are anchored to their summer settings. The consequence runs the opposite way from what most people expect: the Tbilisi clock is the fixed point, and it is the London opening that arrives an hour later in November than it did in September.

So a trading schedule written down at a kitchen table here has exactly one line that needs redrawing twice a year, and the rest of it never changes. The server-to-local conversion is permanent arithmetic; the local hour at which a European or American session becomes busy is a moving target.

The same asymmetry shows up in calendar entries for scheduled releases. A figure timed for the London morning lands early in the Tbilisi afternoon for part of the year and an hour later for the rest of it, while the entry itself never moved.

Installing has no schedule, quotes do

The installers themselves keep no hours. A file can be fetched at nine on a Sunday morning in Tbilisi exactly as easily as at nine on a Tuesday evening, and the account area answers at any hour. What keeps a schedule is the quote stream feeding the chart behind the freshly installed icon.

From Saturday morning until the small hours of Monday in local terms the chart stands still. Nothing is broken and nothing needs installing again; the working week has simply not resumed. Planning the first live chart for a weekday evening avoids the false impression that the download landed badly.

The pause has a second effect worth knowing before the first weekend arrives. The opening prices of the new week can sit away from the closing prices of the old one, because two calendar days of news accumulate while the book is shut and arrive on the chart at once.

Settle the time questions before the first chart

1. Read the server hour from the header of the live spreads page on this site, then add four hours to reach the Tbilisi clock.
2. Switch the phone or laptop to automatic date and time, so the sign-in code is computed from the correct minute.
3. Remember that the daily candle opens at 04:00 Tbilisi and closes at 03:59 the next morning: timeframe labels follow the server day, not the local one.
4. Pick the local hours for a first session deliberately. The overlap of the London and New York bands falls between 16:00 and 20:00 on the Tbilisi clock.
5. Expect a motionless chart from Saturday morning to Monday small hours and read it as the calendar, not as a sign that the install went wrong.
6. Keep two hours written down until they become habit: 04:00 local, where the trading day turns over, and 01:00 local, where the thin band around the rollover begins.

Server and local hours here come from the same measured capture that feeds the spread tables on this site; the Georgian offset is four hours and it stays four hours through the whole year.

Server hour and the Tbilisi clock

Georgia keeps UTC+4 all year and the capture behind these pages ran on a server clock equal to UTC, so the conversion is a flat plus four in one direction and minus four in the other.

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