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Many modern mobile phones have the dates for Daylight Saving hard-wired into their firmware. October 4th is not the date they expect. Here's how to fix the problem.
Early this morning, Australia's south-eastern states moved their clocks forward for a summer of Daylight Saving. Having staggered out of bed this morning, I spent some time advancing all the clocks in the house.
A large proportion of mobile phone owners will be looking at their devices today wondering why they didn't advance automatically, after-all, they used to. My own Nokia 6110 Navigator, for instance, refuses to believe that Daylight Savings started and insists the time is an hour earlier than my (automatically adjusted) PC. Oddly, this worked a year ago.
In previous years, South Australia, The ACT, Victoria and New South Wales started Daylight Saving on the last Sunday of October and returned to 'normal' time on the last Sunday in March.
The problem is that around the beginning of this year, those states agreed to synchronise the start and finish of Daylight Saving with the earlier start and later finish employed in Tasmania. Must be the first any only 'win' that Tasmania has scored against the 'Mainland!'
Earlier this year, the ending date was moved to the first Sunday in April, thereby causing a week of confusion for many mobile phone owners. This time, there will be three weeks of pain. We need a solution.
Fortunately such a solution is close by. All you need do is take your phone on a small journey eastwards.
By adding an hour's daylight saving to 'normal' time, we are effectively moving ourselves one timezone ahead. So, how can you do this for your phone? Simple, change the timezone to be "Solomon Islands."
That's it!
The reason you don't simply advance the time on the phone? If you do, it will completely mess up any appointments that are coordinated internationally, plus once your phone enters it's own version of Daylight Saving (at the end of this month) all appointments will be off by an hour.
All you need do is return the phone to the Australian timezone on Sunday 25th October. The same will apply for the extra week in March / April next year.
BTW... for South Australian residents, I don't know of a timezone one hour ahead of you. Sorry.
David Bass
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