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Timezones

Paul.Todd | 31 July, 2006 15:44

My rant of the week!

Does anyone else have a problem with the Clock application and Timezones on Nokia 3rd Edition devices?

Problem 1: Times are quoted relative to GMT with daylight saving.
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For most users I think this would present a problem as for example:
The company I work for has office in Idaho, USA. This means that the time difference is normally -7 hours with respect to the UK
It is always -7 except for two weeks in the year where the daylight savings changover occurs on different weeks.

If you look in the clock timezone this reports -6 hours because it is currently in Mountain Daylight Time and not Mountain Time.
This is really confusing as the first time a user looks at it they need to realize that unlike Windows the time is adjusted for daylight saving relative to GMT.

This is more annoying in that I had to stop and think why it would be -6 hours and not -7 which it is in real life.

Problem 2: Timezones are wrong.
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The Hawaii timezone is still wrong and despite a thread in the newsgroups there is still no word from Nokia about how to apply a patch or provide an update to correct this.

Currently we have to patch the code to get this to work correctly.

Hopefully Nokia will correct this. I say Nokia, because on the UIQ 3 devices this seems to have been fixed and reports the time correctly.

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of timezone bugs they would like to add to the list?