Brian Jarvis, UMPC Geek

I’ve been dealing with the date and time being wrong on my iPod Touch since I bought it. If you’re not familiar with the problem, I’ll give you a one sentence summary:

Under certain conditions (don’t know the specifics), when you sync your iPod Touch with your Windows XP computer, the time zone on the iPod defaults back to “Cupertino” and the time is randomly generated for some day back in November of 2007.

I have done a bunch of digging around on the internet to try and find a solution. Last night I took one more try and came across something in the Apple support forums: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1357347&tstart=0

Although it doesn’t present a solution, it does present the workaround of closing iTunes before every sync then relaunching it after the iPod is already attached. This is working well for me and now I can finally synchronize my iPod with my coputer without messing up the time and date. I’ll be satisfied with this for a while, but I’m expecting Apple to fix this bug.

BTW, the other option of turning off daylight savings detection did not work for me.

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