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Thanks Love2Learn for your post.

Maybe sync-time-now-widget is not what you need. There are couple of automatically working time-synchronising applications. Phone has also method for synchronising with cellular network ("update automatically" checkbox).

E.g. install package openntpd and it will start every time when phone boots and keeps time synchronised.


These are on todo-list:
*Button visible only when connected to the Internet.
*Error-Message, if syncing fails.

Call me very old fashion of futuristic but I don’t use the Cellular network. (I have Wi-Fi almost all day; home, work, friend & family, favorite restaurants etc.) So I don’t really see the point in paying when I can be reachable for free whole day round. Since I don’t use GSM, I have turned it off. So the “update automatically” probably not an option for me. (but I tested it any way, seems to work but sets wrong timezone)

Thanks for the “openntdp” tip, since I figured that it couldn’t hurt to have both programs I just went ahead and installed it.
At first it seems to do nothing for me. (Maybe it does the startup sync before my Wi-Fi connections is established?) After searching the forums I found that if I do a (open console>type root> type ntpd) it works and updates my time&date, but not my time zone. Furthermore I found people posting bash scripts to do the one-click update without opening console.
I looked everywhere, but did not find any button or menu to set of click anything. So for now my conclusion is that your program is much better (better suites my needs).

Thanks for posting your todo-list. Those are 2 good points, but can I try to persuade you or others to also do something with “Time Zone”?
Having your time & date updated but not your time zone still means wrong time (and some parts of the day it also means wrong date :-) and the whole point of having a sync app is to not have to do it manually.

I did some brainstorming and came up with couple of ways to add time zone to the menu bar without needing additional space or complicated settings menu.

Cut the menu bar in 2 half’s. Keep 1 half for the sync now button. Use other have to “take a time zone snapshot” of current time zone and then display it. In my case after the snapshot it would show a “+8”
or
Use the second half for a button that opens the world map where you can select your time zone
or
Cut the menu bar in 2 half’s. Keep 1 half for the sync now button. Cut other half in 3. use the middle one to display the time zone. For instance “+8” and have on both sites a small button. On the left side a minus button to minus 1 and on the right side a plus button to plus 1.

If not too complicated to implement, I guess the snapshot would be best, since it would also allow to instantaneously also record other time settings like “24hr clock” and exact time zone location(day light saving time).

And of course, what might be most difficult part, find a way to allow the program to remember and use this data on next sync.

Anyway, please let me know if my request sounds interesting, reasonable and do-able? Any change this might be added to the todo-list?

Just to let You know - if You insert fresh battery quickly after de-attaching "old" one, N900 won't restart Your time. In fact, its about 2-3 seconds to do that, so it's pretty easy - don't need monkey agility and voodoo tricks.