Can anyone here explain to me why the XDA (or WIN2003PE) shifts appointment times whenever I change the timezone?
If I make an appointment to meet someone in Hong Kong next week at 10 a.m while I am still at home in Ireland, does that not mean I want to meet that person at 6 p.m. just because I arrived in HK and changed my time zone. I still want to meet that person at 10 am.
Am I too stupid to get the point or are the MS guys nuts?
Is there anything I can do to have my XDA show local time without unnecessarily shifting all my appointments?
Thanks a lot
That isn't the real problem. I find that about half the time I want the shift.
How it should work is that the location field should put the correct time in automatically. So if you say meeting in Hong Kong, you enter HK time etc. Which would be then timeshifted to your current location, but when you went to HK it would revert.
As it is you need to do the timezone calc yourself.
Must admit I have been very confused about what time a flight really is when I haven't done this.
There should be a TZ field in the appointments
I complertely agree with you. I work in 6 different timezones and it's really boring to have to make the calculation yourself...
I suggest my contact to send a outlook invite so that it comes at the right time...
Anybody knows of a PIM that is 100% PO compliant and supports the TZ feature?
Cheers,
Hal
I use City Time http://www.codecity.net/prodctppc.htm , it's not a PIM but it permit to add appointment based on location, you have only to specify the city where you will have the appointment and the program will add the appointment to your PIM at the correct time.
Example:
I'm in italy but i have to write an appointment to a meeting that will be on mexico city at 18:00 on 20/02/2006
On the Travel Itinerary view of city time i add an "appointment" where i have to write: date (20/02/2006), time (from 18:00 to 20:00) and select the city "mexico city". Then the program will add an appointment to my PIM for 21/02/2006 from 1:00 to 2:00 (there is 7 hours difference between mexico and italy) and all the correct time of the appointment written on the notes. Then when i will travel to mexico and i will change the time of my PPC the appointment for the meeting will appear on the PIM to the correct time giving me the alarm when i need it.
Maybe it's not the best solution but it work without every time calculate the time when will be the appointment on the other country.
You are right
I think the default should be that if I enter an appointment at 11AM when I will be in another country, it should stay at 11AM. It is true that if the appointment is a phone call, one usually enters it in their local timezone and it needs to shift with the timezone, but I'd be happy to change those manually and have the default be to not change. Moreover this seems to be the way Outlook itself works
It looks to me like a klugy way of implementing this, for those who sync with Outlook, is to sync, break the connection, change the timezone and time on the PC, then sync again with "PC overwrites PPC" option in activesync.
I think I have experienced this problem
I didn't even cross time zones. I traveled about 150-200 miles and instead of Tmo under the network I was connected to it had a 6 digit number (310 890 I think). All my appointments shifted. But they didn't shift the same amount. Some shifted by 15:15 and others shifted by 27:15 (hours:minutes). I hadn't set the visiting time zone since last hard reset so it was at its default in Madrid, Spain. If they had all shifted the same amount I would assume that it went to the TZ in Madrid but 2 different shifts???
Vectre said:
I didn't even cross time zones. I traveled about 150-200 miles and instead of Tmo under the network I was connected to it had a 6 digit number (310 890 I think). All my appointments shifted. But they didn't shift the same amount. Some shifted by 15:15 and others shifted by 27:15 (hours:minutes). I hadn't set the visiting time zone since last hard reset so it was at its default in Madrid, Spain. If they had all shifted the same amount I would assume that it went to the TZ in Madrid but 2 different shifts???
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Yes, I disable network time update for this reason.
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Hi,
I get SMS messages from different countries, in different time zones.
When the SMS arrives it has a date and time sent.
I cant work out the rule of this date and time.
1) Is it time of country sending SMS
2) Is it GMT time of sending
3) Is it my local time of when SMS was sent.
Eg
At 4.00pm New Zealand time I got this SMS from Singapore. Time sent was 6.00 AM in MS outliook sms window.
4.00PM NZ time is
4.00 AM GMT
12.00 Noon in Singapore
So go figure ....any ideas
But local singapore time
Im having some issues that I need help with. I have a kaiser with wm6.1 on it.
I travel overseas regularly and when I set an appointment at home in outlook, then change the phone to visiting location & timezone when in the new country. The appointment time then changes. Is there a way to stop this happening?
Thanks
Mark
i do it all on my pda. i simply switch to the visiting time zone before i set the appointment then switch back to the home time zone. Then when you actually travel to that location, switch the time voila.
Whenever I get a SMS from someone overseas, the time shown on the SMS is in their timezone, rather than mine. This is a bit confusing and also means that new SMSes from other countries are listed below other messages I've already read. Is there a way to get Windows Mobile to show all times in my time zone?
Bump...
Am also having this problem with my new HTC Touch Pro, except the times are totally off (the person that's messaging me is way behind my timezone, yet their messages appear two hours ahead of my timezone?)
Anyone know how to fix this? It's pretty annoying
Hello,
I currently have the G1 phone unlocked and using Fido (Canadian carrier) as my carrier.
The problem I am having is with the Timestamp for SMS messages only.
When I receive a message, the time shows it as 4 hours behind.
What seems to be going on is that T-mobile probably sends all the messages GMT time from their network and has the phone adjust the timezone according to your location and Timezone.
Fido on the other hand does all the timezone adjustments from the network side, so when my phone receives it, it process's it again another -4 hours (Please note that is my current timezone).
Can someone look into the OS for SMS and see if this is correct? If it is, I'd really love a way to repair this.
Thank you
Same problem........
Same Same!
Hey,
I've got the Dev phone 1, unlocked on Rogers. Similar issue with the SMS timestamp. All incoming SMS are timestamped 5 hours prior to when they were sent. I don't get it.
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UPdate coming
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=445375&highlight=timestamp
Testing this as we speak.
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That fix will work but your calendar events will be messed up. I posted a reply on the thread you linked.
i have been trying to find a way to fix this problem as it is driving me mad lol
so this is what i have come up with so far. the apk Mms.apk is what handles both sms and mms messages. i used baksmali to disassemble the classes.dex after renaming it to .zip and un-zipping. inside there is a dumped class called SmsReciever.smali. inside i found many references to timezones and timestamps etc. i know nothing about java or smali. i did however come upon a possible solution. if someone who was knowledgeable and skilled could append the time retrieval function to resemble: get current time zone, find difference between that and gmt -5, time = result + difference. should work i would think, i may be wrong .. the lines i found of interest are here
I use ActiveSync to keep up with my Exchange Calendar appointments. It appears that a repeating appointment, created by someone else is shifting its time by one hour when synched to HTC Sensation 4G.
The appointment is on the Outlook calendar at 10 AM EST and on the Android device at 9 AM, incl. the reminder alarm.
The appointment has been created when DST was in effect and is repeated beyond the change date. Now that the change of DST to normal time has happened the appointment is off by that on hour as synched.
Does anybody know what I can do to correct this? Or were to report the bug?