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

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> > 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?

Yup, I did a desktop overwrites handheld (a rigamarole I'm getting  
quite tired of with each new version - it's why I haven't bothered  
with 5.0.3 betas yet). It's probably been messed up all along, but I  
didn't look as far ahead as April until the other day. Something here  
is simply wrong. But hey, the MS guys have a good three months to  
track it down. ;-)

>
> >
> > 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.

I don't suppose this is something that could be "faked" in some way,  
is it? Being completely ignorant here, why can't Missing Sync create  
a repeating all-day event when it sees one of these "from date x to  
date y" events in iCal, and vice versa?

  - Joshua Ochs