Was just thinking about how the world clocks on the XDA II synchronizes itself...
All GMT +/- on the list pivot around London/Dublin...but how is London and Dublin derived and (dynamically) updated since daylight saving times fluctuate from time to time?
i believe that the regional settings in windows take care of adding or subtracting the daylight saving
Rudegar said:
i believe that the regional settings in windows take care of adding or subtracting the daylight saving
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but how does it know when to add or subtract? sorry, i live in asia so mabbe i'm not savvy about how DST works...
I know this from an OLD OLD program on my first ever Psion Series 3, many a moon ago, that however intricate it is, there IS a formula, pre-ordained, to calculate when DST starts and ends, for any given year.
Whether its as simple as a pre-set list of dates, or most likely, based on days that months start on etc, I cannot say.
And as to the method behind the formula, again I cannot say.
But I can say that an old old piece of software, on my Psion, was designed to work out just exactly this for you.
So somewhere, or somehow, this IS something than can either be calculated in advance, or is simply a pre-set list.
The DST calculation
The DST is starting the last Sunday of March and is terminating the last Sunday of October. As simple as that.
From London
Living in Israel, I have run into issues with daylight savings time on my Windows Mobile device more than once in the past.
Due to political reasons combined with the usage of a lunar calendar for some purposes (this one in particular), Israel has a differnt daylight savings period each year.
Microsoft has never provided a good and straightforward solution for this. In recent years I had the chance to speak to more than one representative of Microsoft in Israel. The solutions were finally provided, but it never felt like they wanted users to get them.
Of course, without the correct DST settings, all appointments get offset by 1 hour (either compared to real life, or just compared to Outlook, which gets the correct settings from Windows, which in turn gets them from my company's IT manager).
This can become quite a mess if not taken care of in time, i.e., before the DST change occurs.
This year, preparing for the DST change scheduled for the coming Friday (March 27th), I searched the Microsoft support pages and found this update, which is supposed to do the work. I believe this is just the second time Microsoft has released such an update (the first was March 2008).
The update is for several countries including also Iran, Egypt and Argentina.
Thank you for this information!
Great! Solved my biggest mobile problem.
Need Help for Israel DST 2011
Can't find this file anylonger on MS site.
Can you post a download link for KB958729 ?
I have tried kb977014 or kb975353 and neither one solves the issues this year 2011. Any suggestions ?
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Living in Israel, I have run into issues with daylight savings time on my Windows Mobile device more than once in the past.
Due to political reasons combined with the usage of a lunar calendar for some purposes (this one in particular), Israel has a differnt daylight savings period each year.
Microsoft has never provided a good and straightforward solution for this. In recent years I had the chance to speak to more than one representative of Microsoft in Israel. The solutions were finally provided, but it never felt like they wanted users to get them.
Of course, without the correct DST settings, all appointments get offset by 1 hour (either compared to real life, or just compared to Outlook, which gets the correct settings from Windows, which in turn gets them from my company's IT manager).
This can become quite a mess if not taken care of in time, i.e., before the DST change occurs.
This year, preparing for the DST change scheduled for the coming Friday (March 27th), I searched the Microsoft support pages and found this update, which is supposed to do the work. I believe this is just the second time Microsoft has released such an update (the first was March 2008).
The update is for several countries including also Iran, Egypt and Argentina.
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globalgpj said:
Can't find this file anylonger on MS site.
Can you post a download link for KB958729 ?
I have tried kb977014 or kb975353 and neither one solves the issues this year 2011. Any suggestions ?
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Hi globalgpj,
KB958729 will not help you, it's only good for 2009.
I myself am facing the same problem since yesterday morning, obviously.
A Microsoft solution is not available, quite clearly because of the discontinuation of WinMobile and transfer to WP7.
What we need to be looking for is the registry entry that sets the daylight savings change date, and modify it to next Friday, which is when we really change to DST here in the holy land. This might not be easy. See the info here, which I'm still trying to figure out.
This link does show a registry entry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Clock] / "HomeDST": REG_DWORD, which looks like it it can provide a temp solution. That is, if you change it from "1" back to "0", you disable DST. Then you can set it to "1" again next Friday morning.
However, I've tried, it keeps changing back automatically.
So, no solution so far, sorry. I'll keep trying and let you know if I find anything. Otherwise, perhaps a different time zone (Moscow?) for the coming week will do the trick.
Thanks for the detailed reply.
It's sad that MS is not on top of this. There is only millions of users that will have a problem without all the proper settings. For MS its really a little research and posting a cab every year.
Alternatively, someone could write a program that we could even purchase to effect these sort of changes that are required from time to time.
In the meantime, I have set the dword value to 0 and just created a cab to just change it back to 1 next week.
Cheers
skamin said:
Hi globalgpj,
KB958729 will not help you, it's only good for 2009.
I myself am facing the same problem since yesterday morning, obviously.
A Microsoft solution is not available, quite clearly because of the discontinuation of WinMobile and transfer to WP7.
What we need to be looking for is the registry entry that sets the daylight savings change date, and modify it to next Friday, which is when we really change to DST here in the holy land. This might not be easy. See the info here, which I'm still trying to figure out.
This link does show a registry entry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Clock] / "HomeDST": REG_DWORD, which looks like it it can provide a temp solution. That is, if you change it from "1" back to "0", you disable DST. Then you can set it to "1" again next Friday morning.
However, I've tried, it keeps changing back automatically.
So, no solution so far, sorry. I'll keep trying and let you know if I find anything. Otherwise, perhaps a different time zone (Moscow?) for the coming week will do the trick.
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globalgpj said:
Thanks for the detailed reply.
In the meantime, I have set the dword value to 0 and just created a cab to just change it back to 1 next week.
Cheers
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Doesn't it keep changing back to 1 for you?
This morning I updated my S21+ to this new version (G996USQS4AUIN) - I have found nothing new in this release to report yet. No AT&T release notes either. As a matter of fact, the latest release notes shown in the AT&T Support site is still stuck at the July 1 Security Patch Level. If you find something new/fixed/improved in this release, please share your finds here.
Hello.
I have a question about Android preinstalled security certificates. There is possible to view them in system, turning off and on. But unfortunately there even no possible to copy-paste sha and it's fingerprint (maybe it just in particular ui of phone, don't know).
So if iam interested to bulk check all of them for issues/more info/research is there a way by some app or maybe pull them somehow from phone with ADB interface and then import and perform mentioned above tasks in some Windows software/ Linux/web frontend? And then turning off what is not good.
Because for example many of them has expired dates, some of them issued by CA or countries that iam personally have no default trust, etc.
p.s. Iam mentioning a FACTORY STATE OFFICIAL SOFTWARE and firmware phone, Android 12, December 2022 security patch.
Thanks!