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10-30-2007, 10:54 PM
I just had the most annoying day ever thanks to a little bug in my windows XP which does not observe the changes made to Daylight Savings, which has been extended to the first Sunday of November. This was brought to my attention after I phoned Apple and was on hold for 10 minutes after refusing to Restore my iPhone as the "fix."
Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).
What this means is your iPhone will automatically advance it's clock one hour ahead of your desktop whenever you sync. The iPhone is not aware of the change, and advances the clock unless you have your desktop set not to observe daylight savings, like Arizona. Even having your phone set to "automatically set time" won't change things, you'll still get the advanced clock upon docking with iTunes open, or syncing.
The Apple rep tried this on a Vista box and a box running Tiger. I'm not sure if he experienced the problem on Tiger, he couldn't get iTunes up, but he verified it on Vista. I'm on XP.
This problem should resolve itself on November 4th, but until then an easy fix is to set your Time Zone to Arizona.
Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).
What this means is your iPhone will automatically advance it's clock one hour ahead of your desktop whenever you sync. The iPhone is not aware of the change, and advances the clock unless you have your desktop set not to observe daylight savings, like Arizona. Even having your phone set to "automatically set time" won't change things, you'll still get the advanced clock upon docking with iTunes open, or syncing.
The Apple rep tried this on a Vista box and a box running Tiger. I'm not sure if he experienced the problem on Tiger, he couldn't get iTunes up, but he verified it on Vista. I'm on XP.
This problem should resolve itself on November 4th, but until then an easy fix is to set your Time Zone to Arizona.