How do I know the clocks went forward?

Answer: because today C6 took 6 minutes to load as it laboriously went through initializing every VST and whatever else.

Anyone from Steinberg yet prepared to offer a reason for this behaviour (I’ve long hoped for a response), or why twice a year Cubase apparently becomes interested in real time?

Disabled auto daylight saving here and just adjusted manually, no Cubase rescan problem, took only seconds to change the time, way less than a plugin rescan.

Hippo

Thanks Hippo - I’ll try that.

Got the same problem as the OP i.e. painfully slow Project loading times. And I’m running a new project I started in C6