01-19-2018, 03:07 PM | #961 |
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For the record, the file-system time on my Kobo H2O has been very wrong (a constant several hours in the future) for so long that I've stopped looking at it as a bug and accepted it as an idiosyncrasy. I would like to see a fix, but I have no expectation of that ever happening.
Similarly, I feel the same tired acceptance at having the driver name change with each firmware update, such that I have to go into Disk Management and reassign my preferred drive letter every time. It's part of the process now - annoying, but it has to be done if I want my system to work in my preferred manner. |
01-19-2018, 03:14 PM | #962 |
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It sounds more like wrong time zone for some reason. Did you change your time zone and daily savings? Or check them?
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01-19-2018, 03:36 PM | #963 |
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If you're asking me - I specified file-system time for a reason. Through the GUI as I'm using the device, the time is correct. However, when I connect it to my computer to do things like sideload books, the last-modified time/date on the database is several hours in the future.
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01-19-2018, 04:57 PM | #964 |
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Sounds to me like the system is using UTC internally and correcting for it when displaying the time in the GUI. Not an uncommon approach for devices that are used in multiple time zones. Are you in North America by any chance?
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01-20-2018, 07:21 PM | #965 |
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Would it be possible for the Kobo utilities to be modified to set the time/date when the Reader is plugged into Calibre?
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01-20-2018, 07:49 PM | #966 |
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01-20-2018, 08:45 PM | #967 | |
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As for the name change with each update, that is an annoyance that we are going to have to live with. |
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01-20-2018, 10:06 PM | #968 |
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01-22-2018, 07:30 AM | #969 |
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All unix systems (that I have ever seen) use UTC as their time and adjust it for localtime when displaying it to a user.
Linux even (by default) stores the current time in the hardware clock as UTC. Windows wants to store it in the hardware clock as localtime. If you dual boot and expect your time to not be confused, this has to be fixed. I would hope calibre would adjust for this. |
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The file system time was mentioned. Again, out of calibres control for the files on the device that the device actually manipulates. Calibre will write books to the device and they will have timestamps based on the clock of the computer that is doing this. Reading and changing the internal database is the only thing that calibre can handle. From memory, the driver is converting the timestamps in the database to local times on the computer. But, that assumes the timezone set on the device matches the timezone on the computer. And that both are correct. |
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01-23-2018, 04:22 PM | #971 |
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01-23-2018, 05:38 PM | #972 | |
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Yes, I do think calibre should be compensating for the device using UTC when the local OS may use UTC or localtime. The teeny bit of code I've already looked at appeared to be making this adjustment, although I'd have to think about it really hard to figure out if it was doing it correctly. |
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The Kobo Utilities plugin does more with the timestamps, and they should be correct. |
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04-07-2018, 12:19 PM | #974 |
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My reading activity still shows 0 for everything and also most achievements don't work. Are they planning to resolve this in an update?
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04-07-2018, 07:51 PM | #975 |
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Simple answer is that Kobo is aware of the issue and it should be fixed in a new firmware release. As to when that release is going to be seen? My best guess is when the Clara HD is released.
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