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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?
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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------------
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?
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Re: Timezones
Paul.Todd | 02/08/2006, 12:40
Probably the best thing from a dev point of view would be to add a Technical Note in the Tech Library about it and any other timezone issues.At least by having a list of defective timezones it will help us work around any issues without having to investigate each defect from PreSales and Support.
I guess I had hoped there would be a timezone upgrade sis file avaliable some where I had missed
Re: Timezones
walter_t68 | 30/10/2006, 01:39
After daylight savings change in Australia, my problem is that Dawin is not in the time zone list. Before I used Adelaide which now changed from +9.30 to +10.30. However, Darwin stayed the same at +9.30.
The real pain is that Outlook is at +9.30 and my phone thinks it is at +10.30, so all my appointments get syncronized wrongly.
Is there a new firmware available for N73 that takes my time zone into consideration?
Is there a manual way to set a time zone or a city?
Is there a manual way to switch off daylight saving?
Thanks
The real pain is that Outlook is at +9.30 and my phone thinks it is at +10.30, so all my appointments get syncronized wrongly.
Is there a new firmware available for N73 that takes my time zone into consideration?
Is there a manual way to set a time zone or a city?
Is there a manual way to switch off daylight saving?
Thanks
Re: Timezones
hartti | 01/08/2006, 21:18
Don't have any comment on your first issue (daylight saving time).Thanks for pointing out the Hawaii time zone issue to me. I have not followed the Symbian forum discussions closely enough to note this problem. For those who do not know which discussion Paul is pointing to, here's a link
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78544
There is a bug report filed for this in the internal error database. However I am not sure yet how the error will be / is handled. I'll work on a known issue report for this, and contact the dev team for more details.
Hartti
Re: Timezones
ordxpres | 02/08/2006, 03:45
Same here. I have Nokia N80 which i bought from the Nokia store in Chicago (on the grand opening day.. I was a customer #1:-) ).. Anyway... i had to switch to manual time setting since automatic is off by 1 hour. Quite annoying. I tried to see if i can disable/enable DST but no luck.
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