Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy
The DGS [Docking Guidance System] system (the not recording an out time until the aircraft moves part) is new at LAX. Even newer at Gate XXB; our gate. Today we released brakes at 51 and started pushing immediately. The system is supposed to record an out time when the aircraft moves. That would be X51 local; X52 at the very latest. But it showed an out time of X58! Pay wasn't a factor here as we arrived at ZZZ early. But flight time is. I realize that cheating the flight crews out of pay isn't an FAR violation. But lying about the flight time is a direct violation of FAR 117. This flight time was recorded at least 6 minutes; maybe 7 minutes short of what it actually was. Once again; a direct violation of FAR 117. Even though I can't speak for all of the gates; if the company is lying about every flights time by 6-7 minutes that could be a serious FAR flight time violation.
Captain reported that Company DGS [Docking Guidance System] system is not recording flight time correctly for FAR compliance.