Daylight Savings Time

steguis · 04-06-03, 01:04 AM

Ok...something wierd just happened on my Axim. As you can see from my profile, I live in New York City and today is the beginning of daylight savings time so our clocks go forward by one hour, but here's the funny thing, at 1:00 a.m. my Axim beeps and tells me that it changed the time because of DST. That would be good news, except that instead of adding one hour, it added two hours to the time so that it said 3:00 a.m. instead of 2:00 a.m. Did anyone else experience this or is it just me? And before anyone comments, yes I did correctly specify my timezone, etc.

acsurfer · 04-06-03, 03:15 AM

Are you sure you have the times right ?
I live in New York also and at 2:00 my Axim went to 3:00 as did my computer. I hate losing an hour

Osiris · 04-06-03, 11:31 AM

At 2 AM Pacific Time, my Axim informed me that it was changing due to Daylight Savings, and everything worked fine.

The only thing I can recommend is to sync your Axim. The Axim grabs its time from your PC, and if you're running any new versions of Windows, they will correct for Daylight Savings as well. Unfortunately I'm not really sure what happened with yours.

ikehiker · 04-06-03, 11:49 AM

I wasn't up at 2am, but at 7:30 (still not a reasonable hour considering 24 hours before was 6:30 :crooked: ) when I turned on my Ax it told me it had updated the time and it was correct.

rlsinchs · 04-06-03, 11:51 AM

You simply must be a man ahead of your time.

On you PC, go to the Atomic Clock Site, synchronize your time by location/time zone and it will synch with your Axim.

csims · 04-06-03, 12:38 PM

Mine did it too, but after I let it synch it changed to the correct time.

Odd.

commoved · 04-06-03, 01:18 PM

I had a similar pb. with my PC a couple of years back. I finally traced it to a program called "Atomic Clock" that wanted to adjust my PC for daylight savings time. Of course, Windows also made the same adjustment for me. So .... 2 hour adjustment. That was the end of Atomic Clock.

You might want to check the programs you are running, especially clock programs.

JakeRich · 04-06-03, 05:14 PM

Check the timezone settings. The Ax communicates in GMT to the PC, and each of them then independently applies whatever timezone adjustments you need. If you have different timezones on the two of them, they won't sync to the same time.

DennisFranz · 04-06-03, 05:28 PM

vxUtil also has a time setting program. I sometimes use it to check for internet connection ;)

Laughingcat · 04-06-03, 06:00 PM

Here's what happened to me.
Two Axim's left out all night on the coffee table, got up late (9:30 am) grabbed my Ax... turned it on..... screen flashed on for a split second and turned off... caught a glimpse of a message box :rolling: ... Immediate panic! Thought for sure the battery had been depleted. Quickly rushed for the charger. Grabbed my wife's Axim, turned it on SAME THING!
Long story short :D After a couple hours on the chargers and getting the green light.... powered up and the message box that I had caught a glimpse of was simply the message informing us that the time had been changed to reflect daylight savings. WHEW!!! Another bullet dodged :D

ikehiker · 04-06-03, 06:41 PM

Laughingcat,

Were they low on power before you went to bed? I'd left mine plugged in so I didn't have your problem but it sounds like the time change message turned on your Axims and they didn't turn back off.

kool1 · 04-06-03, 06:46 PM

My done the same, jump ahead 2 hours.

04-06-03, 07:07 PM

my axim didnt automatically change my time to 1 hour ahead i had to do it manualy

Scott · 04-06-03, 07:31 PM

Unfortunately, my Ax was feeling lazy and made me adjust my clock one hour forward as well.

I tried to find if there was a setting somewhere that controls this auto-adjusting for DST, but couldn't find anything.

Is this a built-in feature that is just supposed to work? If so, does anyone have any ideas about why some of our Axims did not do their DST duty?

Scott

Grenna · 04-06-03, 07:41 PM

My axim didn't automatically adjust for DST either, I had to do it manually. However, another time zone/ clock program I am running called GoeKron adjusted for DST just fine.

My question is how do I set the axim to adjust for DST automatically in the fall when we lose an hour. I guess its really no big deal but I want everything to run as it should.