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All calendaring apps are off by 1-2 hours

crabocado

Newbie
Jul 11, 2012
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This problem is really bizarre and I am too busy to make a research project out of it so I hope someone has a quick answer.

I have had Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2 with Android 2.something for a few weeks, and everything works like a dream so I wasn't ready for this problem.

When I recently starting using the pre-installed Calendar app, I was shocked that it has a huge bug(s): If I set up a M 2-4 pm weekly recurring event, and then set up a W 2-4 pm weekly recurring event, it deletes the Monday event. Furthermore, the W event is shifted to 1-3 or something. Tried various approaches (e.g. making sure the two events were given slightly different names even though this was for 1 class), with various similar problems resulting.

I then installed "Business Calendar" and found that it, too, would change my event times for no reason.

So I then installed "Jorte" and made sure to not use "sync with Google events" because suspected that might be the problem. But Jorte, too, is now shifting event times on me. A 12 pm appointment today is listed as 10 am.

Please help, someone, I am going nuts. Are all these apps really that buggy? Or is there some "master setting" on my device to un-screw things up?
 
Thanks but, no, my Date & Time has remained normal since I bought it.

Here's my best guess, but honestly, it's not much:
1. Jolte must be just buggy. It knows the correct time (12:00) for the event but it lists it as "10:00", in the 12:00 position.
2. As for default Calendar app and Business Calendar, my best guess is these were being screwed up by syncing with Google Calendar??
 
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OK solved. Each event needs a time zone. Furthermore, the time zone for the device had never been set. Somehow this had never been an issue before. Honestly, though, I don't know why this should have created this problem. It thought I was in "Greenwich +1" instead of the correct "Greenwich -6". Since it's all relative, why this caused a problem is beyond me.
 
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