Wrong timezone in Toronto

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:28:10 -0400, Some guy <[email protected]>
wrote:

>For the past few weeks, my M55 has been automatically switching
>to "Halifax" time zone every time I turn it on, although I am
>in Toronto.
>
>For now I've given up on fighting it, and have instead set the
>clock back an hour so that in effect it'll show the right time.
>
>Is anybody else having this problem? I asked a Fido rep, and
>he said he's not aware of any timezone problems in Toronto.

I think this is some Roger's "slopware".
Once or twice a week my phone asks me if I want to update the time
when I turn it on. If I press NO (repeatedly) I am ignored.
I f I press yes, it sets the time incorrectly, usually 3 or 4 hours
fast. [ My time zone is set correctly.]
This was never a problem before the Roger's takover of Fido.
R. Dave Lambert
49.08°N -123.08°W

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Some guy wrote:
>
> For the past few weeks, my M55 has been automatically switching
> to "Halifax" time zone every time I turn it on, although I am
> in Toronto.

You are lucky you re only being sent to Halifax. My M55 would wander off
to strange places all around the world to cities I had never hear of
before in Asia, Africa, mid pacific etc.

If you look carefully on the M55, there is a way to prevent automatic
updates of the clock. You then set it to Toronto and not worry aboiut it
anymore. (but you have to do the DST changes yourself).

Rogers' network is the culprit in this and there isn't much we can do
about it.

Some guy wrote:
> But I'm still astounded that a major GSM carrier like Rogers
> cannot manage something as simple as time. This is truly pathetic.

Rogers is a newbie inexperienced GSM carrier. Remember that they started
conversion from the old TDMA to GSM just a couple years ago. It will
take a while for any experience Fido had to permeate to Rogers, and in
such takeovers, the experience of the smaller company is often blocked
because people of the bigger company want to protect their own turfs/jobs.

In message <[email protected]> JF Mezei
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Some guy wrote:
>>
>> For the past few weeks, my M55 has been automatically switching
>> to "Halifax" time zone every time I turn it on, although I am
>> in Toronto.
>
>You are lucky you re only being sent to Halifax. My M55 would wander off
>to strange places all around the world to cities I had never hear of
>before in Asia, Africa, mid pacific etc.
>
>If you look carefully on the M55, there is a way to prevent automatic
>updates of the clock. You then set it to Toronto and not worry aboiut it
>anymore. (but you have to do the DST changes yourself).
>
>Rogers' network is the culprit in this and there isn't much we can do
>about it.

Phone and complain -- I did about three weeks ago, just before I left
town for a week, since returning my phone has been in the correct
timezone...

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