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Google DST Bug Returns
- Thread starter jefboyardee
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jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
If I set a 2pm 3/9 appt on my droid, it shows as 2pm on my PC, via Google Calendar. Same thing if I set it on my PC.
If I set a 2pm 3/11 appt on my droid, it shows as 1pm on my PC.
If I set a 2pm 3/11 appt on my PC, it shows as 3pm on my PC.
The droid end is goofing this Sunday’s time change!
And if that’s not inexcusably moronic enough, this has been happening for years!
They don’t want to mess with people’s calendars, lest those people start pondering an iSomething... unless it has the same problem.
edit: I’m in Arizona, which, ironically, doesn’t observe those time changes.
If I set a 2pm 3/11 appt on my droid, it shows as 1pm on my PC.
If I set a 2pm 3/11 appt on my PC, it shows as 3pm on my PC.
The droid end is goofing this Sunday’s time change!
And if that’s not inexcusably moronic enough, this has been happening for years!
They don’t want to mess with people’s calendars, lest those people start pondering an iSomething... unless it has the same problem.
edit: I’m in Arizona, which, ironically, doesn’t observe those time changes.
Merged your threads
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Could someone else please try what I wrote up there? Want to know if it’s only me, don’t think so.
I just tried what you did but it worked fine for me. ???
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Are you in Arizona? If not, that may be the reason. If you are, perhaps it is just me... but then again, I
I'm in N/W Indiana...look under my avatar
Were the folks with the same issue in your general area or an area without time zone change?
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Duh.
This one, Daylight saving time calendar problem, is not AZ, so I have do idea why his and mine suffer and yours doesn’t. Dug it up here.
Digital Controller
The Real Bass Creator
Isn't your device supposed to automatically change for Daylight savings time?
Or is that part of the issue?
Or is that part of the issue?
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Actually no, because Arizona, most of it at least, ignores DST. So while my post-DST appointments should sit still, I think Google is plugging in the DST time change everywhere. Or something.
You’d think that a technology corporation that goes for eight hundred bucks per share would know how to tell time...
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
And just to be sure the problem wasn’t confined to the built-in Google Calendar,
Business Calendar Free does it too. I expected that, since it’s just reading the Google calendar data, but I had to eliminate that variable.
Business Calendar Free does it too. I expected that, since it’s just reading the Google calendar data, but I had to eliminate that variable.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
And also just to be sure it wasn’t my clunky old Froyo 2.2.2 causing it, I ‘upgraded’ to Gingerbread 2.3.3 and that didn’t help. Now the ordeal of downgrading the OS...
I admire your persistence
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
I was compelled to do all that because it’s easier to believe that such an obvious bug was actually something I goofed. But after all that, I’m sure it’s Google’s doing and all my appointments past Sunday are an hour off, depending on which device they were entered on.
Perhaps after the time change across the country, all will be well?
jhawkkw
Chinchillin'
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say this is the issue. In not sure how these apps utilize location off hand, but that would be an obvious cause.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
This happened to me two years ago, right when I was trying to learn how the droid OS worked. And as I recall, it went away just like you desribe.... in the meantime, I had that goofy magic app that fixed it, for a while.
I don
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
I agree, but I found a rope, sort of:
Got a feature suggestion for Google Calendar? Let us know!
...where I wrote:
I live in Arizona, where there is no DST time change tomorrow, 3/10/13.
But starting then, all appointments entered on my Android are shifted back an hour on my PC, and all appointments entered on my PC are shifted up an hour on my Android. Prior to the time change, everything aligns correctly.
Why is this happening and how can we fix it?
Thanks in advance...
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That’s as nice as I can possibly be about this.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
I certainly will and appreciate your help and/or consolation. But hopefully, as you predicted in theory, the problem will magically disappear in about four hours.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Okay it’s morning. I think the change actually occurred right when I was checking. The calendar said it was 0930 but the time on the notif bar said 1030. Couple minutes later, they agreed. So, thinking it was done...
Now if I enter an appt from either device, the other device aligns. But, and that’s a big but, some entries made before the change align and others still don’t. I presume the donts were entered at the droid end. In any case, now I have to spend tomorrow morning foolishly calling all of them to confirm the correct times.
If Google’s objective was to drive me insane, allow me to be the first to congratulate them.
Now if I enter an appt from either device, the other device aligns. But, and that’s a big but, some entries made before the change align and others still don’t. I presume the donts were entered at the droid end. In any case, now I have to spend tomorrow morning foolishly calling all of them to confirm the correct times.
If Google’s objective was to drive me insane, allow me to be the first to congratulate them.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Gooder but but not goodest. Fr