Time Zone Snafu

[thompsd]

I've a qtek 8500 and live in the EST zone and have the phone set to that time zone. When I travel say to San Jose and enable the automatic update feature everything gets way screwed up. By that I mean it will be hours off, now I can reset the time zone to say Turkey and the phone resets to the correct time but everything in outlook then gets reclocked to a different time reflecting the difference between Athens and here. It's maddening & I know just disable the auto feature which is what I do but I've got this cheapo Sony phone that this never happens to. Any ideas about how to fix this?

[rsolomon]

I've a qtek 8500 and live in the EST zone and have the phone set to that time zone. When I travel say to San Jose and enable the automatic update feature everything gets way screwed up. By that I mean it will be hours off, now I can reset the time zone to say Turkey and the phone resets to the

I think you're describing a "feature" of Windows Mobile - appointments shift to reflect the time in your current timezone. Windows assumes you set appointments in your home timezone for the time they occur at home, and that it should shift them for the current timezone. This is great unless you schedule a meeting for when you're travelling....

example: at home in EDT today you put on your calendar a 10am next Wednesday meeting with your PDT colleagues in SJC. When you fly to SJC on Monday, and the phone sets itself to PDT you'll see the appointment at 7am! Windows thought you meant 10am EDT because you put it in that way.

If the meeting is 10am in PDT, you'll have to put it on your calendar at 1pm - as that's what time it will be in EDT for a 10am PDT meeting. That's pretty confusing when someone calls to confirm - "our meeting is at 10am, right?" and you look on your calendar at see 1pm. The best advice I've seen is to simply put the times in the description - or to never change the device's timezone :)

For many years I did the latter, just changed the time on the device and kept the appointments from shifting. I've recently given up on that and started doing the "set adjusted time" method....

YMMV of course!
Richard