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2125 Set Clock Automatically?
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Posted by: Steve28

Is there a way to have the 2125 set its clock from the GSM network like most other GSM phones will do?

I travel a bit between timezones and this would be a great help.

-Steve

Posted by: SHoTTa35

Smartphones don't do that as it would throw off your calendar everywhere you went, You'd be getting alarms like crazy. No way no way as of yet in the Calendar to tell it what time zone to remind you.

EG. Say you are supposed to call "Susan" at 2pm EST. You live in NY. Fly to CA, your phones time would change to PST and you'd end up calling "Susan" at 5pm when the reminder went off. If you sync with an exchange server or even outlook your times would always be changing in Outlook also. While the server would keep putting it back to EST which would drive everyone mad!

Posted by: tgeekb

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Originally Posted by SHoTTa35

Smartphones don't do that as it would throw off your calendar everywhere you went, You'd be getting alarms like crazy. No way no way as of yet in the Calendar to tell it what time zone to remind you.

EG. Say you are supposed to call "Susan" at 2pm EST. You live in NY. Fly to CA, your phones time would change to PST and you'd end up calling "Susan" at 5pm when the reminder went off. If you sync with an exchange server or even outlook your times would always be changing in Outlook also. While the server would keep putting it back to EST which would drive everyone mad!

That's interesting. I just bought a 2125 and was wondering the same thing as I have been using Nokia S60's for a while. I wonder if a world time clock would help with traveling?

Posted by: SHoTTa35

the only way it would help is if MS could put the timezone in along with time and all. So when you set it for 3PM there's an option to set EST, MST or PST right beside the time so that the system could figure out what's the proper alarm time based on your current timezone. If that was the case then your phone would alert you at 11am to call "Susan."

Would work sweet too if you didn't have to think of the time difference either. Say you have a online confrence meeting at 3pm PST and you live in NY, you wouldn't have to remember to set your appointment and reminder 3hrs ahead (or say maybe if it's Japan which is like 12hrs or something) You just set 3pm PST and your phone (if it was really "smart") would know to alert ya at 6pm EST.

Posted by: phq3

Well in the desktop version of Outlook you can actually set/change the default time zone which will automatically attach that to all your appointments and were you for example to change the system time zone it will automatically adjust accordingly.
I don't understand why MS couldn't do this for the mobile version.