WTF! Why am I in Vladivostok?

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I have had this issue in a number of ROMs. I set my clock to +10 Hobart. Before long, it resets itself to Vladivostok. I dont really care, because it is the right time, but c'mon... of all the places.. Vladivostok? Sounds cool, I guess..

[thedeva]

Yeah I had this too.
To fix just go into start, settings, phone, time zones and turn off automatic time zone.
Job done.

Dev

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Thanks. Seems too easy. Shoulda found that one...

[ai6908]

Thanks. Seems too easy. Shoulda found that one...

Where are you now?;)

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Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. No idea why it would choose Vladivostok...

[ai6908]

Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. No idea why it would choose Vladivostok...

You are not the only one, try this! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1836372)

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I'm glad to have found a way to stop this from happening. Thanks for your advice. Question remains, though, why does it happen in the first place? I have noticed that a lot of these ROMs make no allowance for daylight savings time here in Aus, so that is one reason why automatic update would be handy to have turned on. Oh well, if thats the biggest issue I have....

[e_gregious]

Da, Comrade, I also have this problem.
I set my TZ to Brisbane, save, and then check again, and I am mysteriously teleported to Vladivostok again.
I think it is something to do with the way it reads the registry. It simply reads the hours past GMT (Brisbane and Vlad are both +10) instead of the next branch of the registry tree, giving the location.
Why it picks Vlad instead of Bris, I don't know - would have thought it went alphanumeric sort, but maybe it picks the last entry instead of the first.

[nevetsg]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I am in Syd so it was really screwing with our daylight savings time, my mind and my Calendar entries. It only seemed to happen when I active sunk. Will see how it goes.

Oh, and thanks to google search for without it I would not have found this thread.