Australia Daylight Savings shifted my Calendar by 1 hour

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Australia Daylight Savings shifted my Calendar by 1 hour

I'm in Australia on the Optus network. This weekend we went on daylight savings time. The phone picked up the time ok, but now everything in my calendar is off by one hour.

I have the iPhone synced with my Outlook calendar via Exchange. I've tried everything I can think of on both the phone and in Outlook and nothing works (manually syncing calendar, manually setting time, etc). The times in Outlook are correct though.

Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 5, 2008 6:01 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 5, 2008 6:09 PM in response to mattdoc7

Settings/Mail,contacts,calendar -> Time Zone Support -> On

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Oct 5, 2008 6:12 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Tried that one. It was already on so I turned it off and then on again. No luck.

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Answer 3

Oct 5, 2008 7:09 PM in response to mattdoc7

Not sure, but about to try this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931667

Apparently there's also a Windows Server 2003 for application:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951072/en-us

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Oct 5, 2008 7:28 PM in response to mattdoc7

Try it again. There's a setting there for time zone which I just discovered. I had the same problem as you yesterday morning (my alarm woke me at 4.00 am instead of 5.00) and I couldn't work out a fix for the problem since I only looked in the time settings under General.

When I looked at the time zone support settings, I noticed that they were set to the Sydney time zone. I changed that to Brisbane and then changed the time settings in General back to automatic and the time stayed correct.

I had thought it was a bug in the iPhone's software but now I believe it was simply that I had the time zone set to Brisbane in the General date/time settings and to Sydney in the time zone support settings. It's certainly working fine with both set to Brisbane.

Why aren't these settings in the one place? That's what I think should be the case.

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Oct 5, 2008 8:02 PM in response to David Aiken

That one didn't work for me. My zone was originally set to Sydney but I'm in Melbourne so it doesn't matter. Any time I put it back to Melbourne it messes up the time...unless I want to keep my time zone as Brisbane, which isn't really a solution.

I also tried installing the windows update for DST (because my PC didn't change the time itself like it normally does). That actually made things worse on my computer.

I appreciate all of the suggestions though!

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Answer 6

Oct 6, 2008 2:36 AM in response to mattdoc7

time zone support off
fixes all the weirdness with times for me

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Answer 7

Oct 6, 2008 9:08 PM in response to mattdoc7

Check in the settings for Calendar/Mail/ etc. There's a setting there for Time Zone support. Make sure it's set for your location.

I had the same problem as you. I'm located in Brisbane and my time zone was set to Brisbane and automatic. I'd never looked at the Calendar settings and the Time Zone Support setting was set to Sydney. Swapping that to Brisbane fixed the problem for me.

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Oct 7, 2008 2:42 AM in response to David Aiken

Im in Adelaide, and my iphone picked up the time change. But no probs with iCal. Mind you Im still a novice and might not have noticed the problem yet.

JohnC

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Answer 9

Oct 7, 2008 8:17 PM in response to John coveney

[Yiks!!!! Spoke too soon perhaps.]

Not sure if this is related to the time zone issue (as I say Im still learning) but have noticed that the iCal on my iphone is 30mins ahead of ical on laptop.

So an appointment set for 2.00pm on iphone will come up as 1.30pm when I sync with laptop it.

How do I get to sync times?

Thanks in advance.

JohnC

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