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MacEachaidh · 07-17-2012, 11:37 AM

Something weird I've noticed with the Reading Awards system: although I live and operate my KT in eastern Australia, and have the system set to local time, the Awards still seem to be operating on a North American timezone. For instance, the other night I got the "Night Rider" award, telling me that I had just read all night. But in eastern Australia it was only just after midnight, so that made no sense. (It was, however, after dawn in North America. Is that what triggered it?) And a similar thing has happened with the "Rush Hour" award, which kicked in at a time that made no sense, if judged by the clock set to Australian time, but matched "rush hour" in Northern America.

So I'm wondering if the Time setting actually changes the time in the hardware, or if it's only a cosmetic thing for the display. I have no idea if this sort of thing happened in previous versions of firmware — I've never bothered with the Awards before this update to 2.0.0, and only gave it a go this time out of curiosity. (Does it actually have any value other than for novelty? Similarly, I couldn't care less about the Facebook links and all that stuff.)

No worries, though. It's not a problem, as such; I just think it's a bit strange.

Anyone else noticed anything similar?

07-17-2012, 11:37 AM	#1
MacEachaidh Browser Posts: 745 Karma: 578294 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura HD	A puzzling thing about the system clock Something weird I've noticed with the Reading Awards system: although I live and operate my KT in eastern Australia, and have the system set to local time, the Awards still seem to be operating on a North American timezone. For instance, the other night I got the "Night Rider" award, telling me that I had just read all night. But in eastern Australia it was only just after midnight, so that made no sense. (It was, however, after dawn in North America. Is that what triggered it?) And a similar thing has happened with the "Rush Hour" award, which kicked in at a time that made no sense, if judged by the clock set to Australian time, but matched "rush hour" in Northern America. So I'm wondering if the Time setting actually changes the time in the hardware, or if it's only a cosmetic thing for the display. I have no idea if this sort of thing happened in previous versions of firmware — I've never bothered with the Awards before this update to 2.0.0, and only gave it a go this time out of curiosity. (Does it actually have any value other than for novelty? Similarly, I couldn't care less about the Facebook links and all that stuff.) No worries, though. It's not a problem, as such; I just think it's a bit strange. Anyone else noticed anything similar?