Thursday, 5 September 2013

Dumont d'Urville time?

When adding a new entry into Google Calendar on my Android phone, I noticed it defaulted to Dumont d'Urville time (UTC+10), although Sydney/Melbourne was also offered. What?!

A search shows that this is the time zone of a French Antarctic station which happens to be in the same time zone as the Eastern Australian seaboard. When I went into settings and chose Use Home Time Zone, all was good again. Pretty bizarre but amusing bug. I'm glad my appointments are in warmer climes.

It seems somebody has hit this bug before. Maybe it's because my phone has a rather old version of Android.

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