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Auto Time Update on BJ
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Posted by: rafster

Hi guys,

I have been having a really weird issue on my BJ.

I live in north San Diego county (in California), and travel to south San Diego county to visit my parents every once in a while.

Any time I go southward, the time on my phone goes forward 1hr. When I go back home, it moves an hour back....

Any ideas what could be causing this? It doesn't happen on anyone else's phones that I know.

Rafster

Posted by: Foxbat121

The time and timezone settings are updated by cell tower. Looks like you either connected to a tower with wrong time or a tower from a place that does not obey DayLight Savings Time. You can turn it off in Settings->Date and Time->Auto Update.

Posted by: bassman92109

I'm in central san diego, and it happens all the time with me.

Posted by: Mango808

Did you install the DST update patch from Microsoft?

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...5DST_signed.cab

Also, which version of Windows Mobile do you still have on it, WM5 or WM6? WM5 needs the update patch.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes Overview for AT&T Devices

Posted by: rafster

I use WM6, so I think the patch is already included...

Posted by: bassman92109

I'm using WM6, I installed the patch anyway. Still, when I go to El Cajon, my clock jumps ahead an hour. When I go back to Pacific Beach, the time corrects itself. I guess I could turn off autoupdate, but I don't. When I need to check the time, I look at my work phone (which is also AT&T, but it doesn't have the time problem).

Posted by: Foxbat121

WM phones need three info to be correct: clock, timezone and DST. Any of them wrong you will be looking at the wrong time. Most other phones only care about clock. AT&T obviously only care about clock as most of its GSM towers have wrong timezone settings.

Posted by: rafster

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Originally Posted by bassman92109

I'm using WM6, I installed the patch anyway. Still, when I go to El Cajon, my clock jumps ahead an hour. When I go back to Pacific Beach, the time corrects itself. I guess I could turn off autoupdate, but I don't. When I need to check the time, I look at my work phone (which is also AT&T, but it doesn't have the time problem).

Yeah, for me it only happens when I go from the Poway/Rancho Penasquitos area to the Chula Vista/Bonita area. Always have the wrong time further south...

Hmmmm....

Rafster

Posted by: eclipse785

Just turn the auto update off. Personally I got too frustrated with auto update because it screws up my calendar each time I travel to the east coast. For some reason, when it updates the time to a new time zone, it automatically bumps my appointments by the corresponding hour change. If someone knows a fix for this then let me know, but for the time being Auto update just annoys me.

Posted by: Foxbat121

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Originally Posted by eclipse785

For some reason, when it updates the time to a new time zone, it automatically bumps my appointments by the corresponding hour change. If someone knows a fix for this then let me know, but for the time being Auto update just annoys me.

It has nothing to do with auto-update. This is the Outlook feature which primary targets to business folks, i.e. it is by design.

If you setup a meeting @ 9AM in Pacific time zone, when you travel to East coast, it will be automatically set to 12PM. Because 12PM EST = 9AM PST. Thinking it as if that's a meeting with your coworkers in West Coast. You don't want them to get up @ 6AM to have a meeting with you @ 9AM EST.

Anyway, just remember all calendar events are recorded tied to timezone where you set the event. They will auto-adjust based on which time zone you're currently in. So, if you anticipate you set a event for EST time, set your event time correcctly based on your current timezone.

This is the default behavior of Outlook. So far, I have not seen anyway to change to a different behavior although some ppl say Outlook 2007 can.

Posted by: bassman92109

I filed a trouble ticket with AT&T regarding the time jumping problem when I go to El Cajon. They called me back a few days later and said they sent some updates to my phone that should solve the problem. Next time I went to El Cajon, the problem was fixed, the Blackjack displayed the right time. When I checked settings > Time Date, the time zone was Mountain time/Arizona, not Pacific time. When I head back to the coast it changes back to Pacific time.