Hi all,
Have done a search through the forum and have not seen anyone with this same problem. So thought I'd shout out to see if it is just me, or if anyone has any ideas on a fix:
My Hero syncs to my work emails and calendar via Exchange 2007 using the built in Exchange sync functionality (Work Emails I think its called).
I am in NZ but I work with a lot of people in the US and often have meeting requests that are set in EST.
Any meeting that is set to NZT comes cross to my Hero with the right day and time. BUT if someone has set the meeting to EST- the phone adjusts the time correctly, but the day wrong!
For example: A Monday 3pm EST meeting is 8am Tuesday NZT.
But on my Hero it displays as if the meeting is 8am Monday NZT.
You can imagine how frustrating it is trying to figure out which day is the correct day for meetings.
I previously had a WinMo device and it was fine- so it must be something particular to the Hero/Android.
Has anyone seen this before? Or have any tips about if there is a workaround/fix?
Yups, I have the same problem. No idea how to fix it. So I have to check it against my Outlook calendar just to be sure.
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I have a an intermittent problem on my Tytn. Every so often I put a Monday calendar entry in, then when I look later at the Today screen I find that although the appointment time is correct the day is showing as Tuesday. When I look in the calendar it is entered correctly as Monday.
Anyone any idea why this happens?
Thanks,
Al
Alabama978 said:
I have a an intermittent problem on my Tytn. Every so often I put a Monday calendar entry in, then when I look later at the Today screen I find that although the appointment time is correct the day is showing as Tuesday. When I look in the calendar it is entered correctly as Monday.
Anyone any idea why this happens?
Thanks,
Al
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This is a well reported problem and may have something to do with time zones. You will need to search here and on google. Possible searches to include 1 day and 1 hour outllook wm5 calendar etc.
Mike
If the meeting is after 3 or 4 days (for example) my tytn will always show MEETING TOMORROW. why is it so?
Try the google search on sticky above. When I just tried there were a few. For example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271325
Oh, and this is a general WM5 issue so don't limit search to Hermes or even just this forum.
Oh and!!, also check the "1 hour" out error because one hour out takes an all day appt into the next day - so the two things can be related.
Mike
Hi all,
With my Mogul WM6 device, when I receive a meeting invite via email, WM6 Outlook will identify that as a meeting invite and allows me to open the email and click "Accept".
However, I noted that EVERY single invite I receive is always off by 1 hour. Example:
- meeting invite sent via Outlook 2003/2007 for appointment at 1:00 PM
- email invite received in Mogul as an email and when opened, appointment time is for 12:00 PM
- When I opened the same email invite in my Outlook 2003/2007 or GMail, the appointment time is correct (1:00 PM).
So the issue seems to apply to the Mogul only. I checked the following:
- timezone is correct
- Time Synchronization is NOT checked
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Login to Outlook Web Access and see what time zone you're account is set to.
Both Exchange (from Outlook) and Outlook Web Access (OWA) are set to the correct timezone (PST).
maybe?
This is just a thought ... could it be you need the Daylight Savings Time update? Maybe it got lost along the way or something ...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/default.mspx
I'm wrong a lot, so this may not help at all.
there is also a Feb 2008 cab I have on my phone for DST update for leapyear. I could e-mail it to you if you want.
meatgel said:
there is also a Feb 2008 cab I have on my phone for DST update for leapyear. I could e-mail it to you if you want.
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I installed the 2007 DST update, but I don't see it in the device Add/Remove program.
I PM'ed you for the 2008 DST update.
sent! hope it helps.
I applied the 2008 DST update and still no go. But I found something else:
I had my friend sending a meeting invite from his Outlook and lo and behold, the hour was NOT off by 1 hour. So it looks like my laptop / Outlook configuration is messed up.
However, I checked the Timezone on the following and they are all correct:
- Outlook 2003
- Windows
- Outlook Web Access
I wonder what else I need to check?
I've recently discovered the exact same problem on my Mogul. I've done some research and tried all the recommended updates, ect. but have had no luck in resolving the issue.
Any other recommendations beyond checking the time zones on both the Mogul and the PC, installing the DST update on the Mogul, switching back and forth between time zones on the Mogul?
Nothing seems to have worked so far.
same here on my ATT 8525 WM6.1
This is crazy. I dealt with the exact same issue last March with my Wm5 8125.
I can't believe that I'm having to go through this again with Microsoft. I'm sorry, but this is just a silly thing not to have fixed by now.
I was able to get around it a little by switching my time zone from plain Eastern - 5 over to Eastern (Indiana) -5.
I think they don't quite subscribe to the new DST dates so it's a temp patch until the rest of the country catches up on the normal date then I can probably switch it back. (Reminds me of The Langoliers - ever see that movie? )
I was very disappointed to see that the android calendar has the same behaviour as the one on windows mobile in that if you change timezones then all your calendar appointments change by the difference between your previous and current timezone. I think this is an insane implementation and can't see any use to it.
It has been raised as an issue on the google android project so if you hate it as much as I do please vote for the issue by starring it and/or leave a comment asking for it to be high priority
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5892
I don't understand the problem. The current implementation is exactly right. If the appointment times wouldn't change, your appointment would actually be shifted.
Are you having some special use case for your request?
krheinwald said:
I don't understand the problem. The current implementation is exactly right. If the appointment times wouldn't change, your appointment would actually be shifted.
Are you having some special use case for your request?
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Say I am sitting here at home in Zurich and I am making entries for a trip to the US in multiple timezones, for each entry I put in my appointment times in local time, say a meeting at 3pm in NY.
I land in NY, take out the phone and it automatically switches to the NY timezone but the calendar is displaying the meeting now as 9am, thats useless, I want it to stick as 3pm, nor do I want to have to check the timezone for NY before I put the appointment in. When I travel I live in local time regardless of what timezone it is.
Same issues
I really have no idea why Google would do this. I mean you are exactly right, I input all meetnig time as timezone specific. Anyone that has any ideas on a solution would be appreciated? Thanks.
What you are supposed to do is create a calendar called "AMerican meetings" and one called "chinese meetings" lets say. the former will be set to former's time zone and the latter as whatever time zone china uses. IN this case when u create an event, it will use whatever is set on the web site/settings as the default for that calendar. BUT, the calendar itself will display whatever is set as the global "local time zone" on both the phone as well as the website (you can use the multiple time zone add on via labs for help with this too)...
Craziest thing
I have the same problem, except it took me an hour to find out what was going on, since I thought it was because of the Daylight Saving Time which just happened yesterday.
So - to reproduce the problem:
1) Set the timezone to TZ1
2) Create calendar event at time HH:MM
3) Set timezone to TZ2
Result - calendar event is shifted.
Whoever implemented this should quit his job and hide in the most forgotten place on earth. I mean - WTF?
I understand SOME use of this - I create a calendar event that I want to share with someone from another TZ, then it should be translated to that TZ, but again - WTF??
Most of the users need just this: I create an event - a flight schedule for coming back from vacation. I create it before going on vacation, then I go on vacation and change the TZ. On the return day my alarm will ring x hours after the intended time (if vacation place is eastwards) or x hours before if vacation place is westwards. INSANE
What's even more insane is how people suggest solutions like creating two separate calendars and so on.
Come on, as one guy was saying here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=7ee74ad36e5b62fa&hl=en
"How hard could it be to just have the option to allow my 3pm appointment stay 3pm on my calendar no matter where I am? Come on Google!"
Here's someone who almost missed his flight
http://www.androidguys.com/2010/01/21/fixit-google-calendar-time-zones/
hey,
not sure how others are dealing with this and htc are little help.
every phone i've had so far changes appointment times with timezones. so in the past i've never bothered and just put in appointments in local time and changed only the clock when travelling.
The hd2, however, insists on changing time zones for me from the mobile network, and all my appointments shift as well.
i've tried setting timezones in my pim, but this is not supported by the hd2. so how do i stop shifting timezones, or shifting appointment times? is there a nicely integrated calendar app for the hd2 that would use timezones and syncs with intellisync? any suggestions welcome.
cheers
ps:i could set my appointments in with the timezone offset, but i like planning trips in local time, i remember times better that way...
I have not faced your problem - I am not sure that I understood however. I have my HD2 syncing with Outlook via Exchange. I set up my appointments mainly in desktop Outlook in the correct time zone and they get nicely synced in my HTC when I change countries. E.g. suppose I am in GMT +2. Say I have an appoinment at 10:00 (at GMT +1). I set it as such in outlook.( naturaly when I am still in GMT+2 my appointment shows as 09:00) When I visit the country with GMT+1, the phone changes the time zone and my appointment shows nicely at 10:00.
not using outlook
we use Groupwise in my work, and if you set your appointment for 10.00 GMT +1 and are in GMT +2 it still shows at 10.00, and as HTC doesn't support timezones it syncs it as 10.00.
i could do what you describe manually, no problems, but as I said, if I'm planning a trip (in this case I'm sitting in GMT +2) and the calendar shows 9.00, my brain thinks 9, slow as it is, when I get to GMT +1. I like to see the local times in front of me, so i would like the phone to ignore timezone shifts in appointments as well. I don't like all this automatic 'help'.
so your outlook setup would confuse the hell out of me, but that might just be me
will have to go that way though, relearn my habits...
Thanks to a lot of great information in these forums, I was able to get the Superclean 2.8 ROM [3.7.2011] installed.
But I am having one problem -- the calendar is not aware that DST begins this weekend. All of my calendar events this week are displayed correctly. All of the events next week are one hour off. I have calendars coming from multiple sources -- Google, my company exchange server -- but all of them have the same problem.
On the other hand, I'm not able to find anyone else reporting this issue, so I'd guess it isn't specific to the ROM itself.
But what could it be?
That's interesting... sorry i don't have an explanation for you.
But maybe it'll update once the clock updates via the satellite?
Cuz i know on my older phones (this is my 1st smartphone), the time didn't update for over 12 hrs if i didn't make or receive a call
Everyone has this issue!
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Thanks to a lot of great information in these forums, I was able to get the Superclean 2.8 ROM [3.7.2011] installed.
But I am having one problem -- the calendar is not aware that DST begins this weekend. All of my calendar events this week are displayed correctly. All of the events next week are one hour off. I have calendars coming from multiple sources -- Google, my company exchange server -- but all of them have the same problem.
On the other hand, I'm not able to find anyone else reporting this issue, so I'd guess it isn't specific to the ROM itself.
But what could it be?
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There hasn't been a fix to this yet but it is inherent in your Google Calendar. Your Gmail calendar will have the correct times but when it syncs, the phone calendar must still be on the old DST or something. Hopefully it will correct itself this weekend. Shocked that no one has tried to fix it. Hard to find it in message boards but many others are having this issue.
Yeah, this is an issue independent of the SC releases. The calendaring app seems to be extremely dependent on correct time zone information and there seems to be a problem with using the Automatic network-provided values for date, time and time zone. When I turn off the Automatic network date & time and then select my time zone manually, my calendar events display correctly both for Standard Time and for DST. Additionally, any appointments I create for a period within DST appear correctly. This was not the case when using Automatic. If Automatic is selected the appointment time for an appointment scheduled in DST is advanced an hour when viewed in the web-based Google calendar.
This issue created huge issues for my wife who uses the Google mobile calendar heavily.
I have the same problem with a different twist. Most of my appointments were an hour off but some of them weren't. Now that DST has hit, most of my appts show the correct time but some of them are an hour off. It's hard to trust my calendar now.
simonintx said:
I have the same problem with a different twist. Most of my appointments were an hour off but some of them weren't. Now that DST has hit, most of my appts show the correct time but some of them are an hour off. It's hard to trust my calendar now.
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I tested this issue in many ways. If you created an appointment in your calendar and have your Android calendar set as default, it won't change (I think). I created appointments on my computer in Outlook and when it synced to my Smartphone, it was an hour later. I just create all my appointments on my Android device and everything is consistant. Now after DST has occurred, unbelievably, everything is fine. I wonder now if we'll have this problem again when DST is over.