Arizona: PC Time vs Optimus Time

[jefboyardee]

And for the irony of ironies: Will Google Eventually Buy Sprint?

 

[suzannephx]

I don?t either, but I ain?t dishing out six bucks to fix someone else?s problem.

I hear ya, but for me it was the least of all evils.

Also wanted to mention that when I went into the Calengoo settings to disable the Android calendar, it showed that Android was synching to 2 time zones at the same time! No wonder everything was so messed up!

 

[jefboyardee]

Well, I might take your advice if my kludge decides I’m in Africa again and I miss something important.

My curiosity is how you knew Calengoo would fix our problem before you paid for it -- the description doesn’t mention anything about it. It does say it syncs with the Google calendar, but so does the stock and some other free calendars, all of which have the bug.

 

[sfhub]

I hear ya, but for me it was the least of all evils.

Also wanted to mention that when I went into the Calengoo settings to disable the Android calendar, it showed that Android was synching to 2 time zones at the same time! No wonder everything was so messed up!

I would just like to reiterate my earlier diagnosis. What is likely happening is Sprint is setting the time zone that their towers convey to your phones to something other than what it should be, to compensate for timezone bugs in software. Your Google calendar when used from the PC is likely using the correct timezone. This would be consistent with what suzannephx found with the synching of the two time zones.

From the symptoms you posted I think it is actually multiple problems. I believe at least some parts of the Optimus S Android release is compiled with old pre-2007 DST rules and also Sprint is setting the timezone to something other than Arizona (Mountain/noDST) to compensate for various phone models not having the right rules for Arizona not observing DST. The first problem is LG/Google's Android build. The 2nd problem is Sprint's kludge.

 

[sfhub]

Also, some boards had suggested TimeZone Changer - I don't recommend it. Yes, it fixes the problem, but only temporarily. It randomly shuts off several times during the day, so at any given time I had to restart it before doing anything in my calendar. Way too clunky.

I will venture a guess and say that the shutting off randomly is actually being caused by the more aggressive task cleanup in Froyo. It probably thinks the app is done doing its thing and can be shutdown and garbage collected. Lot of background apps have this problem when run under Froyo (Android 2.2) and developers need to make changes to keep their apps from getting cleaned up. It probably works fine under Eclair (Android 2.1)

 

[sfhub]

My curiosity is how you knew Calengoo would fix our problem before you paid for it -- the description doesn?t mention anything about it. It does say it syncs with the Google calendar, but so does the stock and some other free calendars, all of which have the bug.

I don't think she knew for sure, but the developer assured her that he would refund the money if it didn't work right, so she took a shot and it worked out.

 

[sfhub]

I don?t either, but I ain?t dishing out six bucks to fix someone else?s problem. As for its goofiness, I just made a half-hour appt called 5555 that occurs every Sunday morning at 5. So when I open the calendar on week view, I can tell right way if it?s behaving -- 5555 will show at 5.

IMO one-time $6 isn't a lot to pay to have something fixed that you use all the time. Just think of the time you wasted trying to work around this bug and how much your time is worth.

 

[jefboyardee]

Not knowing about Calengoo until after I wasted that time, and being that I needed some sort of solution to the problem, I didn’t have much choice. Although six bucks is not a big deal, it’s -- I hate to say it -- the principle.

 

[jefboyardee]

Apparently, I discovered a two-year old Google problem: Calendar is off an hour in DST

 

[powdajohn]

I went back to sell my car for cash Sprint and got the same old "hmmm, never seen this before" response. They were kind enough to offer to waive the restocking fee...

Never liked Sprint that much. It looks like their customer care just improved.

 

[jefboyardee]

Oh. My. God, Part Two: World Clock & Widget, so far, works even better than Time Zone Changer... at least it survived a power cycle.

 

[jefboyardee]

And now, stuck in the middle of a phone replacement with only google cloud stuff and stock apps available, the calendar works fine -- neither Time Zone Changer or World Clock Widget installed. What the... so I poke around and discover what I think is a new stock file -- Calendar Sync Adapter. Could it be that they fixed it without telling us?

Edit: apparently that file has been there a lot longer than I have, so I have no idea why the calendar suddenly knows where I am.

 

[sfhub]

Have you considered Sprint fixed the TZ info their tower's give the phone in your area?

 

[jefboyardee]

Well, I prefer to think that I fixed it all by myself, but I suppose your theory makes more sense.

 

[Hawaiian_Geek]

But then how do you explain Honolulu, Hawaii having the same problem? Because we're like AZ, we don't have daylight savings time. Anyway I have no clue as to whether or not the problem is or not. I'm assuming so since I've inputted new appointments in my cell ph calendar. So far I haven't had any issues of the time going back a hour.