Daylight Saving Time Bugs on Pre: Few but Strange
Here at PreCentral HQ, the Daylight Savings Time switchover last weekend went over without a hitch - we're set up with network time and everything appeared to 'just work.' That seems to have been the case for most people -- but not all. Following a Twitter heads-up from @Novacharter, we found some folks had alarm issues while others briefly had their calendars think it was December 1st.
Though it may seem strange, getting DST right is a relatively complex thing for smartphones. Windows Mobile still runs into this kind of thing even though it's been around a long time. There are at least three possible points of failure for most users: the phone's own programming, how that programming deals with timezone, and how that programming interacts with the network's time settings.
That last bit might explain why one user at gdgt noted that GPS was failing during that 'extra' hour Sunday morning (via @peterrojas) - the GPS on the Pre leans heavily on the network (though you can fix that if you're driven to do so).
How about you? Any time or date-related oddities on your Pre since the time switch?
