Daylight Savings Time Glitch – Travel In Time With Your Text
Our good friend richiedaze (dude! do some work on your twitter) gave us a heads on some really funny and interesting news!
Did any of you notice the issues as soon as the daylight savings kicked in? It appears that the Motorola CLIQ and apparently on the T-Mobile G1 has time stamp issues on some GTalk and GVoice are incorrect. I’m sure other devices have the same issue, but at this time this is all that has been brought to our attention.
Did you ever watch Back to the Future? Now it’s time to experience it!
Apparently, if you have the Daylight Savings Time issue and you text someone, when they text you back , the time stamp from the message you receive back is before the time stamp of the one you sent.
One post was found on the Motorola support forums with an answer from Motorola saying:
The phone depends on the tower to get network time if the phone is set to automatic. If the tower is providing the correct time then it should correct itself. It is possible for people in the same house to be connected to two different towers. In order to phones to have better coverage the towers signals overlap to some degree. In these overlap areas phones right next to each other might be connected to two different towers. I remember when the adjusted when DST started and ended. There were some cell towers that weren’t updated for this change and therefore some users phones were showing the incorrect time.
Anyone else having this same issue?
About the Author
Simon was an IT consultant for almost 20 years and ran his own web design and development company for another 3. He has been involved with technology from his teenage years. Simon is also an avid Home Theater geek and self appointed installer for all his friends and relatives. His first serious modding of SmartPhones started with his T-Mobile WING and now Android devices.
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2010/03/16 at 19:33:58
It’s funny to see my kids mother go crazy over the time Glitch in her Motorola Cliq. Until I saw it on my G1! Now it not funny. I tried switching roms to see if it was the roms. No good niether. It seems that you all may be affected and not even know about it! Please post your time issues here. If you notice that maybe your time changes foward 2 hours, then goes back. Mines doen’t but hers does. Mines has time stamp issues on text. I went to corporate T-mobile store and they changed the sim card. But that didn’t work either!
2010/03/16 at 19:48:19
I had a similar problem on my G1 (I saw it in Google calendar), and apparently a lot of T-Mobile users did too. I had to set the time manually to get it to work right, haven’t had time to go back.
2010/03/16 at 23:35:22
I have an unlocked Nexus One on Tmo and noticed the same thing so I just manually set my time as well, im getting tired of Tmo slacking and having so many network issues.
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