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Re: [PLUG] Sun March 11...here!
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:33:07PM -0400, Doug Crompton wrote:
> Especially devices that get set locally. Cell Phones are a good example.
There are two cell phones in my house, both serviced by Verizon. When I
woke up this morning, Nita's phone had the correct time, while mine was an
hour behind :-) Fortunately, power-cycling fixed it -- otherwise, things
would have really sucked, as there's no way to adjust the time or timezone
on these phones manually.
> They just follow the time of the cell they are in. You can drive across
> timezone boundries and watch it change.
...which annoyed me to no end a few years ago when I was staying in
Tennessee, which straddles both the Eastern and Central timezones. When
you travel a short distance into town you cross a boundary, and *wham*,
the time represented on your cell phone changes out from under you. It
can be a little disorienting for those of us that don't carry a watch,
but instead rely on our cellphones to act as time pieces.
*grumble*
-mct
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