Calendar and timezones
i'm not sure if it's just me not quite using my phone properly, but i've had a couple of problems with the calendar feature on my 6280. the first time i noticed it was when i put one particular appointment into the calendar - i was in the uk at the time, but the appointment was in france. now, when i arrived in france the clock updated itself as normal to french time, but also moved the apointment forward in the calendar by one hour. i.e. it assumed that because i was using gmt when i made the appointment, that the appointment was gmt and duly compensated. i thought this was a bit strange.
however, next thing i know, just this week with the changing of the clocks to summer time, i found that once again, when the clocks change, all my appointmens were moved forward an hour. surely, when you put an appoinment into the calendar, you don't have to work out which time zone it is in or whether it's on summer or winter time or whatever. when you make an appointment you say, for example, 9 o'clock and you put in 9 o'clock into the calendar and that's it. you don't think, for example, 'ok the appointment is 9 o'clock in france, but that's 8am gmt. oh, but wait, the clocks change so i need to add and extra hour...' surely this is really badly thought out by whoever produced the sofware. i'm sure i can't be the only person in the world to have appointments in two different time zones...
can anyone help? or at least tell me that it's badly thought out and that i'm not missing the point somewhere.
thanks
I find that the best thing to do is this:
When you get a new phone, switch off the auto-update feature. It isn't worth the trouble.
Next, set the correct time zone (currently GMT+1 in the UK or GMT+2 in France).
Then set the time, and never touch it again.
When you move between time zones, or change from summer to winter time, always change the time zone rather than the time.
Chris
6230i (the last bug-free Nokia?)
Vodafone UK contract since 1992
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