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Old 02-18-2010, 05:53 PM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

Well, I thought I'd be able to abandon this thread, but no...

I was just checking my calendar again, having done nothing more with the DST issue, had left the Automatic Network Time Sync disabled, but my appointments are once again showing an hour early!!!!

I guess I'll try resetting to GMT and back again, but this is just so stinking ridiculous that I can't believe it.

unitmonster - is your Calendar still showing the correct times?

One minor consolation - my Holidays are at least staying on the correct dates. Whoop-de-doo!

ETA: I went into CDMA settings, switched Time Zone back to London/GMT, clicked OK, didn't reset, and switched it back to Eastern. Each time it indicated it would change appointments to the new time zone, and it took a little bit to do it each time.

After this (again, no reset), the Calendar again showed the correct times.

So somehow this is still getting screwed up by something, even when Auto Network Time Sync is disabled, so that may not be the triggering cause, or at least not the only triggering cause.

Still a bunch of garbage...

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Old 02-19-2010, 12:53 AM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

DLC, my appts and all day events have stayed correct ever since "solving" my problem. However, from what you described today, it leads me to believe it is just a matter of time before things get screwed up again. Ugh!

You mentioned that you did not soft reset after you corrected the problem today. I am curious if the changes will hold for you after a hard reset.

This issue is ridiculous. This is just simple math. Between dates X and Y, move appts 1 hour ahead. How could this not be a simple fix, and why the heck is it only affecting some people???
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Old 02-19-2010, 01:13 AM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

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DLC, my appts and all day events have stayed correct ever since "solving" my problem. However, from what you described today, it leads me to believe it is just a matter of time before things get screwed up again. Ugh!

You mentioned that you did not soft reset after you corrected the problem today. I am curious if the changes will hold for you after a hard reset.

This issue is ridiculous. This is just simple math. Between dates X and Y, move appts 1 hour ahead. How could this not be a simple fix, and why the heck is it only affecting some people???
Well it has survived 1 reset, and had previously survived 2-3 days of daily resets. I wonder if there is a registry setting or two that controls this behavior and some odd combination of events causes it to get reset to the prior values. I've seen this happen to a "Lock Level" registry key which gets changed on my TP2 from time to time for no good reason.

I'm tempted to post a poll to see how common this problem is or isn't.
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Old 02-19-2010, 02:00 AM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

So far everything has been holding-up OK for me after applying those fixes earlier in the thread. After DLC's post though, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop

As I've said countless times and have agreed with everyone here... why does it seem an easier proposition to colonize Mars than to solve this friggin' DST problem??!!! And why are only a handful of us pulling our hair out over this? One thing's for certain... if it was a "widespread" problem (a la 2016 text messaging bug), it would've been fixed yesterday -- check that -- the day before yesterday!
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Old 02-19-2010, 11:56 AM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

For what it's worth ---> after doing a hard reset on my phone (for other reasons than this) I did the following and my appts are all fine

1) apply DST fix to the PC
2) made sure my Default Location (Setup Wizard) AND my Time Zone (Clocks and Alarms) on the phone were *both* set to the same time zone as the syncing PC
3) Did the active sync

I guess if the phone and the syncing PC were/had to be in a different time zone I'd have to be concerned about the "auto network time sync" option, but since in my case they don't, I'm not concened
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Old 02-19-2010, 04:12 PM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

Has anyone submitted the issue to M$ yet and have an open dialog? What if anything are they saying about this issue. I too don't understand why only some of us are having this problem.
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Old 02-20-2010, 08:13 PM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

I recently got the TP2 (Verizon) and I was looking forward to sync my calendar with Microsoft Outlook; HOWEVER, after spending several hours trying to figure out why my dates were an hour off and holidays were off....sheeesh, i'm ready for a drink too!! This would appear to be a simple fix for Microsoft. Any solutions yet? Besides getting another phone. Thanks
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Old 02-23-2010, 11:37 AM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

Here's an idea ---> is it possible that the problem comes from a cell phone tower that has it's own "clock" set wrong (right time, but wrong time zone) and that every time the phone syncs time to that tower it screws up appointments on the phone?
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Old 02-24-2010, 02:25 AM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

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Here's an idea ---> is it possible that the problem comes from a cell phone tower that has it's own "clock" set wrong (right time, but wrong time zone) and that every time the phone syncs time to that tower it screws up appointments on the phone?
I'm skeptical. It's certainly possible that this would happen very occasionally, but my understanding is that the clocks on the cell phone towers are a key part of their billing system. If so, they would keep them sync'd pretty religiously. I don't think that could explain a problem as widespread as this one.
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Old 02-24-2010, 09:22 AM
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Re: Calendar appointments off 1 hr. -- this is absolutely driving me to drink!

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Here's an idea ---> is it possible that the problem comes from a cell phone tower that has it's own "clock" set wrong (right time, but wrong time zone) and that every time the phone syncs time to that tower it screws up appointments on the phone?
I can tell you for a fact that this was a problem in my area when we first went 3G, it lasted for around 8 months before they fixed it.
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On a different note I see that my PC at home (win7 64) downloaded another DST patch with yesterdays Microsoft patches!
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