I have this old program on my computer as a calendar to help me keep track of appointments, birthdays, etc. Every time there is a change in daylight savings time or traveling to different time zone, etc, it shifts the times I have entered for appointments. Sometimes it shifts entire days! For example, this morning I get a reminder call from my FIL's doctor about his appointment that is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. I check my calendar. It says the appointment is at 8:30 a.m. The appointment was made six months ago before DST. Since I can't remember anything, I need my appointment calendar to be accurate. Can anyone suggest a better program? I don't need bells and whistles. Just something simple that doesn't try to outsmart the time changes. I hate it when the programs try to outguess me. Sometimes Microsoft Word drives me nuts. My first initial is A. If I type my name as A. Rose Pink, and then enter a carriage return, it automatically types B. and so on. I know there is a way to turn it off each time but I'd rather it didn't try to out guess me.
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To be honest, I don't know why you are having this problem. The desktop (and the program on my Palm) do not do the things that you describe. Are you manually changing the time when DST comes into effect. (That could screw things up.)
In any case, the first thing that you might want to do is install the DST update. It takes care of the fact that Congress has changed when DST comes into effect each year. Perhaps it will fix any other problems.
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In any case, the first thing that you might want to do is install the DST update. It takes care of the fact that Congress has changed when DST comes into effect each year. Perhaps it will fix any other problems.
Go here
I don't see why manually changing times or having the computer update its time to standard or daylight should automatically change the times of my appointments. If I've made a 9 am appointment, it is going to remain 9 am because the doctor's time has also changed. And why, for pete's sake, should an entire birthday shift?! Give me a program that doesn't try to "think." I don't want things to change unless I do it myself. Maybe I need to go back to paper.
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Not the computer's time, but the time in the Palm Desktop was what I had to update. My stuff was coming up a day off. When I got download for Palm Desktop, everything shifted back. I had to do it four times as I have Palm desktop on four different computers.
Just what worked in my case. Believe that was a year and a half ago.
Nancy
Not the computer's time, but the time in the Palm Desktop was what I had to update. My stuff was coming up a day off. When I got download for Palm Desktop, everything shifted back. I had to do it four times as I have Palm desktop on four different computers.
Just what worked in my case. Believe that was a year and a half ago.
Nancy
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What you have entered (in your mind) is Nov. 4 at 9:00. The underlying program has to see this as a number (just a number). It sees "something like" 52 days and 6 hours from now (or 2434 hours from now).
Now you manually change the time to correct for the fact that it is no longer DST. The program does not know that this is what you are doing. It thinks that you are just correcting the current time. So, 52 days and 6 hours from now is no longer 9 am, but 10 am. So that is what it displays.
Palm (Microsoft and all other calandars) should have programs that automatically correct for DST. The program will recognize that this is not a correction of the current time - the current time has not changed - but rather that it needs to compensate for DST. Thus, it will correctly switch to or from DST without thinking that the time is being corrected.
Again, try the Palm patch for how DST has changed. That may solve the problem. (There is the possibility that your version of the Palm calandar is too old for the patch given above to work. I just do not know.)
Good luck.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply and for your suggestions and explanations. I will talk them over with the inhouse IT guy (my husband) to see what he can do. I'm afraid to touch anything.
When does DST change back this year? I get so confused. I think I'll move to Arizona. They don't utilize DST. Wish we didn't either.
When does DST change back this year? I get so confused. I think I'll move to Arizona. They don't utilize DST. Wish we didn't either.