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US Clocks Change on 1 November: MT5 Server Time and Gold's Trading Day

30 October 2026, 12:32
Lewis Kosasih
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On Sunday 1 November 2026 the United States leaves daylight saving time. If your MetaTrader 5 broker runs its server on New York close time, the server clock moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2 that weekend. US events keep their usual server times. What moves is the gap between the server and your own clock.

What a New York close server is

A New York close server runs seven hours ahead of New York. Its trading day starts at 00:00 server time, which is 17:00 in New York, the traditional close of the US trading day. That is why gold shows five daily candles a week on these servers, without a small Sunday candle. In the IC Markets price feed in MetaTrader 5, gold also pauses every day between 00:00 and 01:00 server time: in 2026 there is no H1 bar in that hour.

Because the server follows New York, it changes its clock on the same weekend as New York: UTC+3 during the US summer, UTC+2 during the US winter.

What changes on 1 November

  • Server time on a New York close server: UTC+3 until Friday 30 October, UTC+2 from Monday 2 November.
  • Jakarta (WIB, UTC+7): server time plus 4 hours until 30 October, plus 5 hours from 2 November.
  • Kuala Lumpur and Singapore (UTC+8): server time plus 5 hours until 30 October, plus 6 hours from 2 November.

So the daily open at 00:00 server time is 04:00 WIB this week and 05:00 WIB from 2 November.

What stays the same in server time

  • US data released at 08:30 New York time, such as the monthly jobs report and consumer prices, arrives at 15:30 server time, before and after the change.
  • The Federal Reserve statement at 14:00 New York time arrives at 21:00 server time.
  • The daily candle opens at 00:00 server time, 17:00 in New York.

Seen from Jakarta, the same 08:30 release moves from 19:30 WIB to 20:30 WIB, and the 14:00 statement from 01:00 WIB to 02:00 WIB. Nothing about the release changed; only your local clock now sits one hour further from the server.

The odd week: 26 to 30 October

Europe left summer time one week earlier, on Sunday 25 October. For five trading days London is on winter time while New York is still on summer time. London's 08:00 open, normally 10:00 server time, therefore falls at 11:00 server time from 26 to 30 October. From 2 November it returns to 10:00 server time, because New York has changed too. If you watch the London open on gold, this is the week to write the time down instead of trusting habit.

Check your own terminal in two minutes

  1. Open the Market Watch window. The clock in its header shows the server time.
  2. Compare it with UTC. On a New York close server it should read UTC+3 until 30 October and UTC+2 from 2 November.
  3. If your broker uses another server time, its daily candles start at another hour, so daily and 4-hour candles from another server will not line up with yours. Levels drawn from someone else's daily candle may then sit at a different price on your chart.
  4. When you read an economic calendar, convert New York times to your server time first, and only then to your local clock.

A one-hour shift does not change how far gold moves in a day, but it does change when the daily candle opens and when scheduled releases reach your chart. Writing both times down before the week starts prevents the most common mistake: expecting a release one hour too early or too late.

Trading gold with leverage involves substantial risk, and past market behavior does not guarantee future results.

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