I just arrived at the firstleg of my trip. I turned on my phone to call and say I'd arrived. The phone automatically reset its clok to local time. (good)

I looked at my calendar for my nexy flight, and the time was changed! My entire calendar was adjusted by the difference in time zones. I've manually reset (all?) of my upcoming flights, I think.

1) How could I have prevented this?!!

2) Will MfE adjust all my times on my Outlook calendar in California? Over what time span?

HELP!!

i dont know if there is some mechanism somewhere for managing time zones.

Im assuming you recorded the flight times according to their own time zones, so boarding was in the original time zone and landing was in the destination's time zone. When you arrived at the destination it adjusted your already adjusted flight times again.

There is a description section at the bottom of all calendar entries. At the very least i suppose you could input the time there and it wouldnt be changed.

I could also use a paper calendar. I was hoping that wasn't a superior solution. Now I'm not so sure. :-(

there is no way preventing it. there is 2 ways to handle these kind of timezone changes, both will cause errors and disruption....

Allowing me to prevent such adjustments (essentially defining all entries as "local time") would entirely prevent it without causing disruption.

As mmurfin87 alluded to, when ther's ambiguity I usually have both times (e.g. 14:30PDT 17:30EDT) in a note.

Solution: Don't "Update automatically".

This is not connected only to automatic updating of time, it is happening when you switch time zone too. This is propably the single dumbest thing on Nokia phones, the(ir) Symbian phones do the same thing.

What happens is this: you plan a trip (at home) record your flights, meetings etc in the calendar. Then you travel, and switch the time on your phone by switching the time zone (or by letting the auto-update switch for you). Due to some odd logic all your appointments are then adjusted accordingly, so for example an alarm would go off correctly, at your home time but would be wrong at your local, real, time.

What should happen is of course that a time zone change should leave all your appointments time intact, after all you will note your flight back in local time to begin with.

The mess is complete if you then, when travelling, agree meetings etc for the future, they are of course also adjusted when you switch back to home time.

Solution: Don't allow autoupdate (which would be handy), and don't use time zone (which would be logical & easy), but manually change the time on your device from the settings.

The only plausible explanation is that Nokia's programmers have never, ever been on a business trip or that they use paper calendars .

It would be very interesting if someone had an explanation why this is made to work so backwards....

Dirty Harry,

Actually i could see that it´s not so odd logic if you think about it. If we first say that all the stuff what you put in calendar IS locked to your current timezone. This is IMHO really really logical because if you set like "call to John doe at 08:00" (in your home timezone) and then you go abroad on different timezone calendar still tells you correct time even thought you are on different timezone. Not so odd to me :|

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Question might be
What really is the right time?

Slender,

Good example, but....
How many of your calendar markings are in reality like that? Vs all the meetings, flights etc which you get and need in "local time" to begin with?

And what if you are in a "foreign timezone" and want to add "Call John Doe at 08:00" next week when you will be back home?

I would maintain that the most logical way would be not to change calendar times at all. Now both timezone and auto-update of time are useless for most (all?) travelers who use their calendar.

as I said: there are 2 options. if youre preference would be used, there would be others complaining...

a system setting for it would probably be only good way to handle the issue.