[Q] GingerBliss SMS Timestamp

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I'm using TSM GingerBliss and noticed the timestamps for incoming messages with the HTC messaging app are 3 hours earlier than my phone's current time. Haven't seen this before and haven't quite gotten around to testing with GoSMS or another app. Does anyone know why this is happening, or what file/setting I need to modify to correct this?

I would've posted this in the development area but I haven't posted enough past posts, and it's probably suitable for the general area anyway.

I am running TSM Bliss too but my time stamp is correct. I am not sure what is going on. I would try another messaging app to see if it is wrong there too. If so then you know it isn't the messaging app. There could be some sort of lag on your local Verizon network at the moment.

Hmm, thank you, and good thought on the Verizon lag, but I'm not sure if that's the issue though. As an initial test I sent myself a message, which returns within a few seconds with a timestamp 3 hours earlier than my phone's time. I'll try another app to check as well.

As a temporary fix I installed 'SMS Time Fix' which helps, but I'm curious now as to the actual problem.

Same here man idk what's going on

Sent from my ADR6350 using XDA App

honestly, i dont know why its doing that for some and not others..and tbh i dont know (ive poured through the xmls) and not seen why/what would be doing that

Yeah, that makes two of us so far I've tried with the stock and GoSMS apps with the same result. The SMS Time Fix app does work at fixing the timestamp, but I'm curious as to how it does this which could lead to some ideas. Newt's Inc2HD ROM has the same issue.

So does the messaging system rely on time zone info? I'm heading to another time zone so I'll be able to test that.

Ok, so I'm in Kansas City, and now the timestamps of my incoming messages are 2 hours behind. So for some reason the messaging system thinks I'm in the Pacific time zone. Maybe it's using my home zip code that I have setup through Verizon, which is in California...not sure. Another strange thing is that MMS are not affected, only SMS, go figure.

However, I might have found a setting on my flight over that could work. Maybe someone can confirm this, but in the folder

/data/data/com.android.mms/shared_prefs

there is a file

com.android.mms.customizationBySIM.xml

that has a line

<boolean name="SMS_Use_Device_Time" value ="false" />

I changed it to true, and now all the incoming messages use my phone's time, even after restart. I don't know, maybe that was added by the SMS Time Fix app, sounds promising though. Any thoughts?