DST Changes, Patches, Patch Changes?
Today, or maybe yesterday, that weird clock funkiness known as Daylight Saving appears to have happened. Normally I don’t care about things of the sort, clocks just magically update around me cause they’re always on phones or computers. But this time apparently someone decided to change the way time works. I hear it was the government. That fits with my understanding of how things work, so I’m going to roll with it.
However today my phone and my computer said different things. Disturbing. Cause if you can’t trust your electronics who can you trust? It appeared that my computers were right, but my phone was wrong. I was pretty sure I had patched up my phone with this Daylight Saving Time patch from Nokia. So why was the time off? I went looking for the patch, but I couldn’t find it. Apparently I wasn’t the only one looking for it. I grabbed the patch from other places, but I was right, it was already installed on my phone. So I canceled the install and just rebooted my phone. And then the time was right.
So… is that good or bad? Do I want the time right, or do I not want a patch installed that Nokia has pulled from their site for some reason? I’m not against living on the edge and all, but I am kinda curious which edge it is that I’m pushing. Odd huh?
March 11th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Hi Mike,
I thought (hoping against hope) that using “network time update” would solve this whole issue. This morning I my phone was one hour off. I thought the time update from Cingular didn’t go through so I rebooted the time with no change. I switched from manual time input back to network time but nothing changed.
I then removed all my calender appointments, corrected the time manually, and then resynced. Now, all the appointments are one hour off.
It seems as if I really, really need to apply the patch.
March 12th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Hi Mike,
I have a Nokia E62 on Cingular, and didn’t bother installing the patch, as I am not using any of the applications on the phone that would require it (mostly the calendar I guess). With this the phone picked up the time from the network, as it should.
Alex