UK peeps it's time to tweek your CLOCK

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Matthew Maddock

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• Mar 26, 2006

• #21

>> That's it. Useless!!
>
> I think it's for when you travel to another time zone, your phone will
> automagically tell you the time in that zone. I agree WTF it can't follow
> changes in local time is just daft, it's not as if DST is a "new
> thing"...

Nope, doesn't do that either! I travel to France every couple of weeks
and it's never changed the time for me. If I manually change the time
zone on the phone it automatically adjusts the time on the phone to that
new time zone, but doesn't do it otherwise. Although by the time I've
messed about changing time zones on the phone I might as well have just
adjusted the clock manually!

It surely can't be a difficult job to get it to pick up the time from
the local cell.

Matt.

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #22

On or around Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:56:41 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On 2006-03-26, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> stupid gadget. It should be able to sync itself to a time-server like the
>> pooters do - FFS, even my car radio can do that.
>
>All of my Sony-Ericssssons from the T68i onwards have been able to
>sync to "network time" if you put them on "auto timezone", I forgot
>this time on the new one but the past two have updated correctly.
>
>My watch, alarm clock, computers and PDA also all handled it, although
>the central heating didn't so a nice cold shower for me!

My motorola AFAIK doesn't have that - but then it is a few years old.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
In Touch: Get in touch with yourself by touching yourself.
If somebody is watching, stop touching yourself.
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #23

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:08:42 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

> Also it's on the last sunday of October and March every year,

It is in the EU now but not that long ago mainland EU and the UK were
different. Australia is a week later this year, something to do with the
God Sport I believe? The US is different again...

> hardly beyond the capabilities of mankind to put that in the timezone
> information, as done on every computer I've ever owned since the early
> 90's..

It's not something that is safe to hard code, there was a "windows
update" to handle Australias shift this year. Not aware of a similar
facility for phones and why bother the time is available from the
network.

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Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #24

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:56:41 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

> All of my Sony-Ericssssons from the T68i onwards have been able to
> sync to "network time" if you put them on "auto timezone",

Is a T610 pre or post T68i? My phone didn't and it is set to "auto time
zone".

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Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #25

On 2006-03-27, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is a T610 pre or post T68i? My phone didn't and it is set to "auto time
> zone".

I don't know, I've had a T68i, a K700i and now a K750i which have all
handled the timezone thing fine on Vodafone.

My landy's clock doesn't auto-change, no surprises there, just trying
to get an obligatory landy reference in!

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #26

On or around Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:50:50 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:08:42 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:
>
>> Also it's on the last sunday of October and March every year,
>
>It is in the EU now but not that long ago mainland EU and the UK were
>different. Australia is a week later this year, something to do with the
>God Sport I believe? The US is different again...
>
>> hardly beyond the capabilities of mankind to put that in the timezone
>> information, as done on every computer I've ever owned since the early
>> 90's..
>
>It's not something that is safe to hard code, there was a "windows
>update" to handle Australias shift this year. Not aware of a similar
>facility for phones and why bother the time is available from the
>network.

yebbut, half the fecking phones don't have the nouse to look on the netwrok
for it, which is my complaint.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"There are three sorts of people in the world - those who can count,
and those who can't" (Anon)

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #27

On or around Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:50:08 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On 2006-03-27, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is a T610 pre or post T68i? My phone didn't and it is set to "auto time
>> zone".
>
>I don't know, I've had a T68i, a K700i and now a K750i which have all
>handled the timezone thing fine on Vodafone.
>
>My landy's clock doesn't auto-change, no surprises there, just trying
>to get an obligatory landy reference in!

*my* Landy doesn't *have* a clock.

The stereo in the minibus manages to pick up the time off the RDS network.
mind you one day at about 9 in the morning it suddenyl changed to 17:32,
then about 10 minutes later changed back to 9:15... I reckon someone typed
something into the wrong box
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine... War is hell"
Gen. Sherman (1820-1891) Attr. words in Address at Michigan Military
Academy, 19 June 1879.

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Mar 27, 2006

• #28

On 2006-03-27, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> *my* Landy doesn't *have* a clock.

Neither did mine, I gaffer-taped a clockwork alarm clock to the dash,
the bells ding a bit over the bumps but it works OK. Naah not really,
I bought the proper dashboard clock for it then just bodged the wiring
and put it all back together, then found out there's a proper wiring
loom add-on for the clock.

> The stereo in the minibus manages to pick up the time off the RDS
> network.

Stereo? Luxury! I took mine out of the landy, can't hear the fecker!
The CD player turned into an orbital sander after just a few trips in
the summer.

> mind you one day at about 9 in the morning it suddenyl changed to 17:32,
> then about 10 minutes later changed back to 9:15... I reckon someone typed
> something into the wrong box

Yep, RDS is only as accurate as the station's server clock, as a time
geek I think there's no excuse for getting it wrong but then I worked
in the commercial radio industry for a while, it can be a tad chaotic.

Even worse is the use of RDS traffic announcement functions to switch
radio over to adverts and station IDs before traffic alerts and then
not switching it back until a few minutes after the traffic alerts
have ended.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!

 

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Matthew Maddock

Guest

• Mar 27, 2006

• #29

> Even worse is the use of RDS traffic announcement functions to switch
> radio over to adverts and station IDs before traffic alerts and then
> not switching it back until a few minutes after the traffic alerts
> have ended.

Especially when your "TA" button is dead and you can't turn the
bloody thing off!

Matt

 

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Lee_D

Guest

• Mar 29, 2006

• #30

Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
> On 2006-03-27, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> *my* Landy doesn't *have* a clock.
>
> Neither did mine, I gaffer-taped a clockwork alarm clock to the dash,
> the bells ding a bit over the bumps but it works OK.

Larry, if your reading this NO!


;-)

Lee