Smart phone time
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Topic: Smart phone time
Posted By: thendrix
Subject: Smart phone time
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 7:21am
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Anybody having trouble with the time being right on their phone? There have been several folks around here having issues with the time on their phone being off by exactly 5 hours, me included. My FIL has the same thing going on with his flip phone so it's not a smart phone thing. My wife and MIL aren't having this issue but several others on Facebook are according to my wife. Any of y'all have this issue or is it just here? ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 7:33am
Not having it nor have heard of anyone having it around here or on FB. I did notice some messages on my phone about time zone updates or something like that. I ignored them so they musta updated itself. Maybe you got blown to a different time zone when that hurricane came thru a while back!?!?  ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 7:37am
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There was a crack in the space time continuum the middle of last week. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 7:57am
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A crack???? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I wonder how big a crack has to be to change by exactly 5 hours? You could be right John. I guess we're somewhere around England now ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Bill_MN
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 9:18am
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Sounds like they're just losing their time zone setting. All time zones around the world are set off of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and being on the east coast you would be GMT-5 hours.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 9:22am
| my fwip phone has been off 5 hours since we got it, Verizon staff reset it, and the next day it was back...off by 5 hours, then last week it was off by 6 hours, but it was sporadic, i just checked, and right now it's the right time |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 11:30pm
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Shameless, Shameless,,,,you been going to visit John and getting into some of that cash crop? Whew!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 2:15am
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Sounds like some of the phones are picking up GMT or Zulu time which is what the aviation industry uses. I still wear a watch and never check the time on my phone. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 6:01am
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heck I don't even wear a watch and KNOW what time it is.... sun's up....get doing somthin sun's high... go eat when it's hovering over the birch trees, it's about 4-4:30. sun's setting...time to call it quits, outdoors as for the phone..the 'smart' phone thinks you're in England. 'Somewhere' you have to say WHERE YOU ARE ( location) so it will figure out the local time (GMT+- hrs). On a PC running Windoze, it's pretty easy to adjust. If it was a truly SMART phone, it'd take the GPS data and decide what friggin timezone you're in. I cut that code for a microcomputer system that controls lights in a henhouse. The easy code was figuring out sunrise and sunset but needed GPS to make a 'universal' device,that automatically adjusts where the henhouse is in the World. Hens lay more egggs ,cause there's more 'sunlight'. Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2018 at 7:22am
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I don't think it's a case of the phone not knowing where I am because it changes back and forth all day long. I look once and it'll be right then a free minutes later it's of by 5 hours again. I figured it's something going on with the network around here. Jay, are you saying you helped with programming the controllers for hen houses? If so, which controllers did you work on? Rotem, Choretime, Cumberland? ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |