Nokia (N95) Time Zone Changing

[Ext User(mrripcurl)]

Have N95 (original v10 firmware). Set to Australia (NSW) AEST. That's
fine, and appointments made in local time.

Trouble was I went overseas last week after making overseas
appointments from Oz. When I arrived overseas the phone promptly
altered all the appointments by the difference in time zone, so that a
10am appointment became 12 noon (I went to NZ). Aaaah!! My standard
7am alarm became 9am - if I hadn't noticed I would have been cactus.

Have never come across a phone or organiser that did this
automatically before without giving me an option. Not only that, but
this "enhancement" must be of limited value I would have thought, in
fact I'm almost stuck to think of a rare occasion when I would want
this to happen (perhaps if I have a Conference Call booked for a
specific time locally but that is about the only instance). I can find
no reference to this in the manual (if anyone finds such a reference
pls let me know which page before I go cross-eyed?) or in newsgroups.

Anyone else come across this and it caused a problem?

Anyone know a way to prevent this, or do I need to install a decent
PIM?

Is this the same across most modern Nokias (in which case I may as
well go back to SE)?

- johnno

[Ext User(Simon Templar)]

Anthony Horan wrote:
> Precisely. And being a MOBILE phone, that is NOT desirable.

I'm not sure if I agree, say you have to have a conference over the
phone at 1200 AEST, you travel to Perth for some reason and the phone
then alerts you at 1200 WST, you call up and the conference is finished!

Not that I travel, but being in the hobby of Amateur Radio I have come
to understand the importance of time zones.

Considering the phone tracks the relevant time zone, I'm sure it would
revert back to the correct local time when you are back in NSW.


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[Ext User(Michael J)]

"Simon Templar" <usenet@vk3xem.net> wrote in message
news:5hld9gF3kmm4bU1@mid.individual.net...
> Anthony Horan wrote:
>> Precisely. And being a MOBILE phone, that is NOT desirable.
>
> I'm not sure if I agree, say you have to have a conference over the phone
> at 1200 AEST, you travel to Perth for some reason and the phone then
> alerts you at 1200 WST, you call up and the conference is finished!

He's right

[Ext User(Anthony Horan)]

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:10:45 GMT, Michael J wrote:

> "Simon Templar" <usenet@vk3xem.net> wrote in message
> news:5hld9gF3kmm4bU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Anthony Horan wrote:
>>> Precisely. And being a MOBILE phone, that is NOT desirable.
>>
>> I'm not sure if I agree, say you have to have a conference over the phone
>> at 1200 AEST, you travel to Perth for some reason and the phone then
>> alerts you at 1200 WST, you call up and the conference is finished!
>
> He's right

As far as conference calls go, yes. As far as everything else goes, no.

[Ext User(Simon Templar)]

mrripcurl wrote:
> Okay, no-one has told me whether this is a feature across modern
> Nokias or ltd to N95. Anyone know?

I have an N70 personally, but couldn't say if it happens with it because
I don't travel that far a field.


> And yes Simon, the times did change back, which means all those
> appointments that I made whilst I was away now look as though they
> occurred at 7am rather than 9am! I know when I was there so not a big
> issue, unless of course the Police decide to seize my phone as
> evidence in which case best of luck to them!

I can see the problem if you aren't used to working different time
zones, although to me it sounds quite logical.

I suppose there is one work around for you in the mean time and that
would be to disable the automatic time update feature, that way when you
fire your phone up in another time zone it won't change the time. Of
course it will still show the time back here in Australia, rather than
where you are, but at least it won't change the appointments on you.


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The views I present are that of my own and NOT of any organisation I may
belong to.

73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
<http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/client_search.client_lookup?pCLIENT_NO=157452>

[Ext User(Marts)]

mrripcurl wrote...

>In the past 22 years with mobiles I've had about 25 mobiles and 6

What sort of mobile did you have back in 1985? Presumably this was here in
Oz?


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