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Originally Posted by patrickt
I checked my Kindles and I'd forgotten to change them for DST. I hate the changing time twice a year. But, since i have a clock in my bedroom and a three clocks in the kitchen, and time on my computer and a clock next to the computer, and since I wear a wristwatch I hadn't noticed the time on my Kindles was wrong. Other than the Kindles being off by one hour they were fine but I leave WiFi on. I don't think it takes power like the 3G does.
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I noticed this too. This is really aggravating. Unix has been able to get the timezone right since long before Linux, let alone the Kindle, was ever thought of. The Kindle has not one but *two* copies of the Olson timezone database on it (one used by glibc, one by the JVM). But, despite that, it can't do daylight saving adjustment and we have to do it by hand like it was a wall clock. I guess it was too hard to have the Kindle ask what timezone you lived in or even the name of the country you lived in (which Amazon already knows)...
Pathetic. Just pathetic. Well done Amazon, a wonderful example of technology thirty years after its time.