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Originally Posted by Miescha
My question is regarding step 4 and 5. I did nothing to any of my PCs and they all showed the time change just fine. I didn't get the usual message notifying me that the time was changed for DST, but the clocks did change. I'm guessing my computer got the DST patch via Microsoft Windows Update automatically. Likewise, I'm guessing Outlook 2003 also got the updated patch automatically. Does this sound right? If so, I guess I only need to load the DST patch onto my phone and follow the steps other than 4 and 5.
Out of curiousity, how does the phone keep changing back after the time is manually set under clocks and alarms? I thought I read (above) that the phone doesn't get the time from Verizon or elsewhere?
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I put those steps in there to make sure you have the correct updates on the computer, so if you have them, then yes, skip it. They were available from Windows Update, but of course a LOT of people don't do updates...
On the changing time... It all comes down to how a time zone is named. During the winter months the time zone on the eastern cost is Eastern Standard Time, during the summer months it's Eastern Daylight Time. The EDT is one hour ahead of EST. Your device does get the correct time when it syncs and when it connects to the towers, but it doesn't change the time zone when it does this. So if you have it set for EST, then it will pull the correct hours and minutes and do the correct offset of hours (you know those +5 hours thing) and adjust the clock to your time zone. When you clock is set to EST, then when it pulls the time, it does the adjustments to EST, and not EDT, so that's why it keeps going an hour off.
The reasons behind Microsoft making Windows Mobile devices not change time when you cross a time zone automatically is because of appointments and not knowing which time zones appointments were created in. This is something that Microsoft is FINALLY working on getting fixed and in Outlook 2007, you now have the ability to see and set time zones for each appointment, allowing you to schedule it for that time zone. When Windows Mobile finally updates (and I think it will be in WM6) to time zone per appointment, then they could finally enable the towers to switch to the correct time zone and keep your appointments correct, provided you put them in the right Time Zone to begin with.
So to see what I am getting at, let me give you an example. So say you live in NYC, and you want to schedule an appointment in Chicago. NYC is EST/EDT and Chicago is CST/CDT, so one hour apart. If you know your appointment is going to be at 11 AM Chicago time, and you put it on your calendar 11 AM, since that is when it is. Well in pre-Outlook 2007 versions you couldn't select time zones (at least not easily), and you put it for 11AM EST, even though you meant 11 AM CST. If your phone automatically switched it would then show 12 Noon, instead of 11 AM, since it thinks the appointment is EST. This is why I always said in the past to set appointments to your timezone time, so that way when you clicked the visiting time zone, your appointments would switch and be on the correct time. So in reality you should have set your 11 AM appointment to Noon on your device, then when you switched time zones, it would have shown up as 11 AM. This gets even more confusing when you go across more time zones, which is why the phone doesn't automatically switch to the local time, even though it does "see" the time from Verizon.
Hopefully that doesn't confuse you...