Palms vs. Daylight Saving Change

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    EnergySaver
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    I know that Palm has a file to run to “update” Palms with regarding to Daylight Saving (it’s mentioned in another forum topic, I know) … BUT here’s my question:

    Do I really need to bother running Palm’s update … IF I manually went into my Palm’s preferences, then went to my current time “location” and manually changed the “rules” for the Start/Stop of Daylight Saving?

    I changed the week to “second” … changed the month to “March” and left the day at “Sunday”. Seems like that should handle it … is there some reason I don’t understand to bother running the Palm update software still?

    #1871211

    logsam
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    Sounds like your option will work. However; will you have to update that for the fall also? The download was quick and easy, now, I don’t have to worry about changing the settings to my palm. I think its just a matter of preference.

    #1871212

    I did it the Energy Savers way.

    #1871213

    I received an update in my email from palm. Quick and easy install.
    I question if you don’t update will it revert back to when you sync next? My palm backs up all the data and when it re syncs everything is back. Just a thought

    #1871214

    EnergySaver
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    Commenting on the comments of others …

    Yes, I also changed the “end of DST” settings also … I changed them to: First Week / November / Sunday … I just forgot to mention that. So in theory I should be “set for life”, or at least the life of the Palm.

    Good point, not sure what will happen when I sync the Palm … I should try that. I hope the settings don’t jump back. That could be the only reason I see to use the software “fix” (since I’ve made the change manually already) … maybe the Palm software on the desktop computer also gets “fixed” by the “fix”. I will try that tonight and report back.

    #1871215

    EnergySaver
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    Follow-up to my last posting …

    I synced both our Palms … everything stayed they way it should (ie. time didn’t change, the change to the DST scheme didn’t change, schedule Calendar appointments didn’t change).

    To the best of my experience, I don’t think the PC-side of the Palm sync process “cares” about what time it is. I see no place to deal with Time Zones or Time of Day on the PC-side.

    #1871216

    PCFrog
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    Also note that both ways are just a soft fix.

    From Palm
    All users: In the event of a hard reset, this update will need to be installed and run again on your device.

    Regardless of which way you go, if your PALM does have a hard reset, which mine has done 2 times in 1 year, you will be back to square one.

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