[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Time zone problems after Daylight Savings Time

[David Turley]

On Jan 1, 2006, at 12:40 AM, E-Commerce wrote:

> I am using Missing Sync 5.0.2 (I haven't used the 5.0.3 betas due  
> to the ongoing sync issues others were reporting) with my Treo 650,  
> and I noticed something odd today. I have a repeating event for  
> 7:30pm every Wednesday. From now through March, everything is fine.  
> After Daylight Savings Time takes effect in the US, the Treo shows  
> the event starting at 8:30pm, with "7:30 CDT" in parentheses  
> (everything remains normal in iCal, where the event was created).  
> Sounds to me like something is calculating the time based on an  
> offset from GMT, but one end or another isn't taking into account  
> DST properly.

That issue I saw pre-5.0.2, it went away for me in 5.0.2. Did you do  
a "desktop overwrites handheld" when you upgraded to start clean?

>
> I've also noticed that events created in iCal "from date x to date  
> y" (such as a long trip) do not sync to the Treo properly. The Treo  
> only shows the start date, with no repeating to match what is shown  
> in iCal.

It's covered in the user guide. The Palm does not support such  
events. You need to set them up as daily repeating events in iCal,  
not one event spanning days. It's a Palm limitation unfortunately.