Help Network Provided Values for Date & Time

[TexasLegend]

I've got an issue with automatic date/time update but more importantly what it does to my corporate (exchange) calendar. I thought maybe some of the experts here might have some advice for me.

The problem:

If I accept a 09:00 meeting request on my desktop PC it is recorded on my outlook calendar as an 09:00 meeting and wirelessly syns with my phone as a 09:00 meeting. Nothing exciting here...just works the way its suppose to.

If I get that same meeting request but i accept it via my phone it shows up on my phone calendar and wirelesly syncs with my desktop as an 08:00 meeting.

I've been battleing my IT department for a few weeks now arguing that our server times are wrong or someone has the wrong time on their desktop PC...or maybe even mine. They logged into my machine and confirmed there were no date/time issue within our IT infrastructure.

I got to looking at my phone more closely and think I may have identified the problem.

Settings>Date & Time on my phone is currently configured to "Automatic (Use network-provided values)." "Set date, Select time zone and Set time" are all locked because I've indicated I want to use network values. Although they are locked I can see the settings the network is using and they are incorrect. The time zone that is selected is "GMT -05:00, Central Daylight Time." I live in Texas and I am CST but that should be GMT -06:00 not -05:00. It appears that the phone or android OS is compensating for daylight savings time by changing the GMT time to -05:00. Moreover, if I disable automatic time and try to manually select my time zone CST is listed as GMT -05:00 instead of -06:00. If i choose the correct GMT by selecting another geographic location the my calendar gets all screwed up.

I went to Verizon yesterday and they didn't have a solution. An employee with an HTC device realized he had the same problem but he doesn't sync his calendar with any other client so he never realized the problem. A second employee with a Motorola did not have the same issue.

So that was way long-winded but I'm at a loss for a solution and hoped someone here could point me in the direction of a fix.

 

[drewcam888]

my only suggestion is delete calendar on phone. change time to right zone. then resync calendar. this way the change shouldnt effect your calendar times

 

[Lespaul20]

my only suggestion is delete calendar on phone. change time to right zone. then resync calendar. this way the change shouldnt effect your calendar times

I don't see how that's going to solve anything. Changing the timezone would result in the clock being off.

 

[TexasLegend]

i agree with you guitar man...time zone will be incorrect and if this problem is an adjustment for daylight savings time what happens when i set the clock back an hour....i'll just have the same problem but be an hour late to all my meetings.

am i the only one having this issue or are there not that many people wirelessly syncing with corporate servers?

 

[warlord1352]

i agree with you guitar man...time zone will be incorrect and if this problem is an adjustment for daylight savings time what happens when i set the clock back an hour....i'll just have the same problem but be an hour late to all my meetings.

am i the only one having this issue or are there not that many people wirelessly syncing with corporate servers?

actually i am having the same problem too. i noticed this a little while back and i too don't know why it does this or if it will go back to being the normal time zone when time moves again in the winter. i have a motorola droid 1 and am gmt -8, but the phone says i am in gmt -7. but this is quite annoying as it does mess around with my calendars a bit.