From Mountain to Pacific — Phone was set to Mountain Time Zone before departure. I made an appointment from 11:00am to noon. Upon arrival in Pacific Time Zone, the schedule read correctly, but the phone was 1 hour ahead (still on mountain time). My settings for this test were Network Time –ON, Network Time Zone–OFF.

I tried the test again on the way back to the mountain time zone. This time I switched the settings around (Network time–OFF, Network Time Zone–ON). I reset the phone’s time zone to Pacific (to match where I was), then scheduled another fake meeting from 2pm to 3pm. The results were the same. Schedule looked good (no shifting), but the time on the phone was now lagging behind by 1 hour (stuck on Pacific Time Zone).

As an airline piot, I find this issue to be very frustrating. I change timezones a couple of times a day. I wish Palm didn’t make the calendar responsive to time zone changes. Is there a fix I’m not seeing? My old palm treo didn’t have this problem. Nor do my friends iPhones. I need to be able to input appointments into my calendar while I’m on the road, no matter where I’m at, without having to do time zone calculations in my head first.

DD

So if “Network Time” is on, Pre should show local time (Say you flew to L.A.).

The 12:00 o’clock lunch appointment that you set while in Houston (Central Time) should still appear as 12:00, AND your clock should show the local L.A. time.

If you turn “Network Time” off, and turn “Network Time Zone” off, and manually set it to Central time, you shouldn’t snow up to your 12:00 lunch appointment until your Pre shows 1:00.

If you turn “Network Time” on (now you are showing local time on the clock), and “Network Time Zone” on, your Pre should show the local time (Pacific) and your appointment as at 11:00, since it thinks you meant 12:00 Central.

So you want to show local time (“Network Time” on) and the appointments you entered while you were in Houston to show in Central Time (“Network Time Zone” off). Alarms should be at the time you set, that is, the time the Pre shows because you’ve locked the time zone to home.

I know, clear as mud, but looks like a great feature, really, since you enter your appointments, arrival and departure times in your own time zone, but they mean the local time zone.

It’s a tip of the day, not a work around.

I was playing around with this last night before I fell asleep, so maybe I was seeing things. What happens on my Pre is this:

1) changing the time zone manually (or letting the phone adjust time zone automatically) also changes the time of all my appointments in the calendar, which is bad.

2) forcing the time zone to remain at my home location keeps my calendar correct, but it makes the time display on my phone incorrect, which is bad.

I can’t find a way to get both the calendar and time display to be correct unless I’m at home. Is there an option I’m missing?

This is what would happen to all your Outlook settings if when you got to New York, you reset the zone, instead of just the time. The time would appear correct, but all your Outlook appointments would appear an hour later, as per Central time. Instead, you change the time on your computer, and leave the zone. That’s all he’s done is allowed the time to reset, but not the zone.

And even nicer touch would be if the calendar application supported multiple time zones.

Your recommendation to turn off the automatic time zone adjustment seems to be the only way to keep the calendar correct when traveling. Unfortunately, your alarm will wake you up at the wrong time in the morning so you’ll still miss your meeting.

When you change the time zone manually the clock displayed on your Pre will reflect that manual time zone. The new problem then is that you have to remember to make the time zone adjustment whenever you look at the time on the phone, or set your alarm.

I don’t understand why they don’t provide an option in the calendar application to set the time zone separately from the phone/network clock. Or an option to ignore the clock/network time zone in the calendar app.

I just got my Pre so if I’m missing the way to really fix this problem please let me know.