Windows Mobile 5.0 Daylight Savings bug
The following is an email I sent out to our company about a bug in the Treo 700W and 700WX phones (among others) so I thought I'd include it here. Note that neither the Daylights Savings patch or latest firmware from verizon (1.22 at time of writing) does not fix this problem (actually, Verizon's daylight savings patch seems to CAUSE it). Also, I'm in the Mountain time zone, so adjust for where you are.
This email applies to Treo 700W and Treo 700WX users, or more specifically those of you who use a PDA to synchronize with Outlook, use Verizon, and have a device running Windows Mobile 5.0. It does NOT apply to those with Windows Mobile Smartphone, like the Motorola Q.
First the fix, then the explanation:
On the phone, click Start -> Settings -> System -> Clock & Alarms -> More. If you have “Enable local network time” and “Use network time zone” checked, then uncheck “Enable local network time” . Then click on the Time tab. You may see that the phone is set to Arizona time. Change it to GMT -7 Mountain US. Click OK, and Yes to save clock settings. Click Clock & Alarms again. Select the More tab and check the “Enable local network time” box (make sure “Use network time zone” is also checked). Click OK and Yes to save clock settings.
This will not fix any appointments between March 1 and November 1 that were previously created, only those created from now forward. You will have to manually adjust those appointments. I’m not positive, but the problem does not seem to occur in recurring appointments, only one time appointments, like the holidays that Outlook adds. If you’ve already added holidays to your calendar, then you will have a lot of appointments to change. If so, let me know and I can show you how to easily delete those and add them back again.
Explanation:
We have discovered a bug in the way Verizon handled the daylight savings changes implemented last year. If you updated your phone with the Daylight Savings patch, then you may notice that any when you are in standard time (like now), any all day appointment you schedule between March 1 and November 1 (like the 4th of July) shows up on your phone a day early (although it shows the correct date in Outlook). Appointments that are not all day may show up an hour early on your phone. The default result of Verizon’s patch was that it set your phone to Arizona time during standard time, and Saskatchewan time during daylight savings time in order to accommodate the changes in dates to daylight savings. This worked great as long as you weren’t scheduling an appointment in the daylight savings time period, but you were presently in standard time. We’ve found that by setting the phone to Mountain Time that it fixes the problem, but you have to disable the feature to get the time from the Network (Verizon) in order to make this change. However, after changing it to Mountain time you can turn the feature back on to get time from the network and it will remain in Mountain time. I am not sure, however, what happens when you travel outside the Mountain time zone and then return. You may have to repeat the above procedure when returning to get it back to Mountain time.
This email applies to Treo 700W and Treo 700WX users, or more specifically those of you who use a PDA to synchronize with Outlook, use Verizon, and have a device running Windows Mobile 5.0. It does NOT apply to those with Windows Mobile Smartphone, like the Motorola Q.
First the fix, then the explanation:
On the phone, click Start -> Settings -> System -> Clock & Alarms -> More. If you have “Enable local network time” and “Use network time zone” checked, then uncheck “Enable local network time” . Then click on the Time tab. You may see that the phone is set to Arizona time. Change it to GMT -7 Mountain US. Click OK, and Yes to save clock settings. Click Clock & Alarms again. Select the More tab and check the “Enable local network time” box (make sure “Use network time zone” is also checked). Click OK and Yes to save clock settings.
This will not fix any appointments between March 1 and November 1 that were previously created, only those created from now forward. You will have to manually adjust those appointments. I’m not positive, but the problem does not seem to occur in recurring appointments, only one time appointments, like the holidays that Outlook adds. If you’ve already added holidays to your calendar, then you will have a lot of appointments to change. If so, let me know and I can show you how to easily delete those and add them back again.
Explanation:
We have discovered a bug in the way Verizon handled the daylight savings changes implemented last year. If you updated your phone with the Daylight Savings patch, then you may notice that any when you are in standard time (like now), any all day appointment you schedule between March 1 and November 1 (like the 4th of July) shows up on your phone a day early (although it shows the correct date in Outlook). Appointments that are not all day may show up an hour early on your phone. The default result of Verizon’s patch was that it set your phone to Arizona time during standard time, and Saskatchewan time during daylight savings time in order to accommodate the changes in dates to daylight savings. This worked great as long as you weren’t scheduling an appointment in the daylight savings time period, but you were presently in standard time. We’ve found that by setting the phone to Mountain Time that it fixes the problem, but you have to disable the feature to get the time from the Network (Verizon) in order to make this change. However, after changing it to Mountain time you can turn the feature back on to get time from the network and it will remain in Mountain time. I am not sure, however, what happens when you travel outside the Mountain time zone and then return. You may have to repeat the above procedure when returning to get it back to Mountain time.
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