Fall Back (Tomtom Go Clock)

BoxsterBoy · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 31, 2004 Posts: 33

After setting all the clocks in the house and cars etc.. I would have presumed tomtom go would have beaten me to it. Not so. Going to set clock and 'sync' option and the time goes one hour ahead of what it should be eg GMT+1. Given that Tomtom knows which country I am in I would have thought it possible to work out the proper time (especially given the fact that UTC from the sats is correct.

I have tried using both 4.40 and the 4.42 update to no avail. Had to do a manual clock set to correct.

Maybe someone has figured it out or I have something else to e-mail Tomtom about?

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

I noticed that today as well. Most surprised.

ZZBeard · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:04 am Post subject: Time Zone setting

I am trying to remember if I/we was/were given the option of setting to a time zone, or a DST option when first powering the TTG up...

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tonyfinn · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:05 am Post subject:

no, there isn't a time zone option. I can't see it being a problem to incorporate this feature though.

jdatkinson · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 29, 2004 Posts: 63

Noticed the same thing with 4.42 yesterday. It's easy enough to knock the clock back one hour but it does appear to be a minor glitch. Worth emailing TomTom, I guess. If they take on board all of things that the users of this forum have spotted the next big software update should be a corker!

stix · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject:

I haven't checked, but I don't think TTG has a date stored anywhere... this is also necessary if you want him to work the time out himself, as well as some table defining when daylight saving is applicable.

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject:

The GO will always set the time to UTC (what it gets from the satellite) and you will then have to adjust the hours back to your time zone. One wonders if TomTom have ever tested that feature outside of the GMT time zone.. I thought the Netherlands are GMT+1?
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Sniff · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

It works the same outside the GMT timezone (I'm in Germany). The TTG sync feature sets the clock to UTC as per the satellites. But is it really such a big deal to flip it on one hour?

nej · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject:

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject:

Sniff · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

OK then, 6 hours in your case! :P

But seeing as I bought this thing as a GPS unit (which it does pretty well) and not an alarm clock, I'm not too fussed about it. Let's be honest, it only needs the clock setting for ETA, otherwise it has no need of it...

spacerunner · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 19, 2004 Posts: 21

Just checked my time om TTG and its exactly right, well matches the PC clock.

spacerunner · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 19, 2004 Posts: 21

The forum closk is way out tho'... :P

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject:

You will have to adjust your profile - Summer time has ended
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jdatkinson · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 29, 2004 Posts: 63

So they've probably just set it to default to central european time rather than this being a bug. It's quick enough to roll the hours back on screen so it's not really a bug after all, is it?

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