HTC 3125 / Smartflip / 8500 (Star Trek)
Bizarre calendar sync behavior
Okay, I'm quickly running out of patience here.
When I sync this phone to my PC, the phone shows the times according to the time zone of the person who set the appointment, and not the time of the user of the freakin' phone. So if I'm in Chicago, and I have an 11am meeting with someone on the West Coast, and they set up the meeting, it shows up in my phone as 9am. My Outlook calendar on my desktop doesn't change.
Talking to someone at HTC made me think there is actually a setting for this somewhere, but I don't have the menu items to get there. Has anyone seen this sort of thing? Can anyone help? Is this thing just defective?
When I sync this phone to my PC, the phone shows the times according to the time zone of the person who set the appointment, and not the time of the user of the freakin' phone. So if I'm in Chicago, and I have an 11am meeting with someone on the West Coast, and they set up the meeting, it shows up in my phone as 9am. My Outlook calendar on my desktop doesn't change.
Talking to someone at HTC made me think there is actually a setting for this somewhere, but I don't have the menu items to get there. Has anyone seen this sort of thing? Can anyone help? Is this thing just defective?
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This has always been the way that Windows Mobile has worked. It automatically takes into account time zones, and if you're aware of it, it works rather well.
Ex: Let's say my phone is with me in the Central time zone and I make an appointment for 10am. 10am CDT is 11am EDT. Now let's say I travel to NYC and set the time zone on my phone to EDT when I get there. The meeting is now set at 11am EDT which is the same as 10am EDT.
The tricky part is when you're setting times for other time zone. Let's say I'm going to travel to NYC next week and have a meeting at 2pm there. If I'm setting up the meeting now, while I'm still in the Central time zone, that meeting is actually going to occur at 1pm CDT (which is 2pm CDT). Therefore, I...
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Ex: Let's say my phone is with me in the Central time zone and I make an appointment for 10am. 10am CDT is 11am EDT. Now let's say I travel to NYC and set the time zone on my phone to EDT when I get there. The meeting is now set at 11am EDT which is the same as 10am EDT.
The tricky part is when you're setting times for other time zone. Let's say I'm going to travel to NYC next week and have a meeting at 2pm there. If I'm setting up the meeting now, while I'm still in the Central time zone, that meeting is actually going to occur at 1pm CDT (which is 2pm CDT). Therefore, I...
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