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Did your phone handle the switch to standard time?

AstroManLuca

AstroManLuca

Lifer
I've heard of Android phones and iPhones alike having trouble with the switch between DST and standard. Yesterday morning I woke up to my phone (Samsung Epic on Sprint) having set its clock back TWO hours instead of one. Apparently it got confused and thought I was on mountain time even though I'm on central. So it set the clock back an hour and put me in the wrong time zone.

The workaround was to just manually set the time and then I could set the time zone to anything I wanted. Turning on automatic network time reset me to mountain time until I updated the PRL, and then everything worked fine.

Interestingly enough, my alarm clock sounded at the exact time I set it for. So even though it was displaying 6:45 it went off at 7:45. I guess my alarm clock is aware of time zone shifts and uses the time zone in which you originally set the alarm.
 
It might have been an issue only with the towers in my local area and resetting my phone's radio fixed it. I'm not even sure why updating the PRL would have fixed it except that the radio is restarted when you do so. Come to think of it, I didn't even try restarting the phone.
 
Using a Samsung Vibrant with CM 7.1.

The phone clock is set to automatic "use network-provided values". And the phone is behind by 1 hour. The phone seems to have automatically fallen back one hour, despite me living in Arizona where we have no DST, so we never fall back or spring forward.

I have to manually change the timezone now from Pacific to Mountain.
 
Out of all of the iPhones I have owned, I have never had one fail to switch when there is a time switch.
Last phone I had an issue with was a Windows PDA phone but that was because for some reason getting network time wasn't available on a state of the art phone.
 
My Samsung GS2 had exactly the problem described in the OP. It even switched me from eastern to the central time zone to make it work.

My wife's iPhone4 changed just fine but its alarm was an hour off on Sunday morning.

My EVO, now used by one of my parents, got everything right, as did my computers.
 
Just checked my iPad and TouchPad, both set to automatic time and showing the correct time. So only my Vibrant screwed up, but could be because of the custom ROM.
 
Ravynmagi said:
Using a Samsung Vibrant with CM 7.1.

The phone clock is set to automatic "use network-provided values". And the phone is behind by 1 hour. The phone seems to have automatically fallen back one hour, despite me living in Arizona where we have no DST, so we never fall back or spring forward.

I have to manually change the timezone now from Pacific to Mountain.
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And you're sure there's no time zone called "mountain (Arizona)" or just "Arizona" or anything like that? You have to select the Arizona specific time zone in some devices.
 
McWatt said:
My Samsung GS2 had exactly the problem described in the OP. It even switched me from eastern to the central time zone to make it work.
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Did you try updating the PRL or just restarting the phone like I did?

Also my wife's EVO worked just fine so maybe it wasn't a local issue with towers. Since we're both on Sprint.
 
Yep. My iPhone and Macbook handled it just fine. I got an alarm right where it was supposed to be.

Too bad I can't say the same thing about all of the other clocks in the house... They should make some wall clocks with automatic time zone checker... Overkill, I guess, but saves the trouble sometimes.
 
Never had any problems with any of my devices.
Win7 computer, Samsung Galaxy S2, HP Touchpad, Panasonic ZS7 camera, Garmin Nuvi 760 GPS, and Emerson digital atomic alarm clock all changed time fine.

Besides my car which I have to change manually every time(because it doesn't have an auto updating feature), I haven't had to change time on anything else in over 5 years.
Daylight savings bug is overblown, just like the Y2K bug was.
 
No issues on any of my devices. Thought the DST issue only significantly effected iOS devices, though I didn't see anything about iOS 5 dropping the ball like 1, 2, 3, and 4 all did. Guess they finally fixed it.
 
time doesnt change here. my phone handled that well.


When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
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gorcorps said:
And you're sure there's no time zone called "mountain (Arizona)" or just "Arizona" or anything like that? You have to select the Arizona specific time zone in some devices.
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Yep! Arizona and Hawaii have separate time zones because they never change. In summer we are aligned with Pacific, and in the Winter with Mountain. We have no use for DST - no need to prolong the heat of the day in summer. 🙂
 
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