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Re: Cell phone time, etc
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2005 Apr 10, 18:40 -0600
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2005 Apr 10, 18:40 -0600
On Apr 10, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Jared Sherman wrote: > There was an article in the NYTimes online this week which mentions > that > actually the sales of WATCHES are down, industry wide, by a significant > amount. They say that young folks are no longer wearing or buying > watches--they are using their cell phones instead. Cell phones are the first common technology which automatically change time zones. I have always wondered why Garmin and others did not put a little more effort into displaying the right local time automatically: a GPS knows where you are, add a map of the time zone boundaries and you can do it automatically, but nobody does! However I have noticed that my Motorola cell phone does not automatically change times for Daylight Savings Time. You must turn the phone off and then back on again, and when it wakes up it then gets the right time post-time zone change. Dan