Receive calendar item via Bluetooth changes appointment's time

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#489 4-Sep-2003 13:47

If I have an appointment on my Pocket PC and send it via Bluetooth to my Nokia 3650 it shifts the time by 12 hours.

For instance, an appointment for 17:30 is sent via Bluetooth and the Nokia 3650 stores it as 5:30 (am).

Anyone seen this before?

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#1294 4-Sep-2003 16:20

I have exactly the same problem when synchronising my Sony Ericsson T610 with my Macintosh. At first, I thought that this was just a bug in iSync, but it's uncanny that you are having exactly the same problem with completely different hardware.

In all honesty, I haven't tried that hard to find a resolution to the problem. I am happy accessing my appointments solely from my T610 at this point in time.

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#1296 4-Sep-2003 16:49

I've just noticed it today. What I usually do is enter my appointments on my desktop or Pocket PC and sync them.

Then I just overwrite anything on my phone from my desktop (I rather not sync three different repositories).

Anyway, today I decided to change an appointment on my Pocket PC and test the Send To function via Bluetooth. And I found that the phone got the wrong time (-12 hours shift).

Perhaps I have to look for some timezone setting on my phone (I know there's one somewhere, but I've disabled it).

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#7454 29-Jul-2004 02:48

Mauricio,

The Nokia doesn't support Time Zones really...

If you look at how vCalendars are written, the DTSTART and DTEND of the vCalendar is missing one character... the letter "z".

DTSTART: 20040721T100000Z
DTEND:20040721T110000Z

Which translates to 2004-July-21 @ 10:00:00 Z (zulu) or UTC/GMT

At +12 GMT this comes out to 22:00:00 or 10PM

And since the Nokia doesn't care about the Z at the end... it gets the GMT time adn uses it as local time... therefore posting it as 10:00am

Mabuhay! ~ Carlo

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#7462 29-Jul-2004 21:57

Thanks for the explanation Carlo!