Comments for Brian Jarvis, UMPC Geek

Comment on iPod Touch Time Bug by Fernando

Fernando — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:50:40 +0000

My problem has some similarities to the ones described by all of you.
Maybe the details of my problem can help others (and me) to come up with a solution.
In my case, I live in Bolivia (time zone GMT -4, country with only one time zone and in which daylight savings time never applies). Everytime after I sync my iPod Touch 32 GB (new model launched in Sep 2008), it changes its time to Caracas, Venezuela (GMT -4:30).
I have Windows XP Professional operating system in my PC. In the Control Panel, in the date and time settings, I can see that the time zone is the same for Caracas, Venezuela and La Paz, Bolivia (GMT -4). I found that Venezuela has changed its GMT in Dec 2007 to GMT -4:30, and that is something I believe that Windows operating system do not have yet updated. Conclusion, maybe that is causing my problem.

Another possibility is that this problem was originated when I did the initial set up of my iPod Touch, in which I may have chosen Caracas, Venezuela time setting without being aware that Caracas, Venezuela recently had changed its time zone (which I found afterwards). I cannot find this feature in any menu in iTunes to check if this setting is set to Caracas, which may be the cause of the problem.

Comment on Acer Aspire One Full Review by sherry

sherry — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:58:18 +0000

I also recently got an Aspire One. I agree with just about everything you say, and I like the blue.

I prefer the keyboard to the EEE 701 because the right shift is much better.

Also opening in case hinge makes the netbook easy to hold. And screen rotates like a tablet. Good for reading although I’d also like flip and touch.

Comment on iPod Touch Time Bug by Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:23:10 +0000

Apple’s never heard about this problem or they won’t admit they aren’t addressing it? I find that pretty disappointing.

Comment on iPod Touch Time Bug by Hosang Yu

Hosang Yu — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:57:40 +0000

I forgot one more thing.
Thank you for your blog. I was really crazy about this because I use New York Times application and gmail with iPod, which are suddenly killed because of wrong time when they tries to check the date and get ‘today’s update.’ When this happens to New York Times application, I had to re-install them… -I think this could be the bug of New York Times…
oh… really terrible…

Comment on iPod Touch Time Bug by Hosang Yu

Hosang Yu — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:54:46 +0000

For me, this page is very helpful to solve the problem, and I’ve got a hint to go forward…
I doubt this happens when the iPoD is synced at the first time iTune is launched and synced… As my engineering experience, I suspect this happens when the iPoD device or iTune doesn’t wait enough for each other to get the correct time…. maybe…

What I did tried is…
You can see Edit menu Basic Configuration(F). When you have plugged iPod touch, you can see Devices tap.
Then you can see a menu disable automatic sync.
To me, this feels more elegant(^^) than abruptly close the iTunes window…

And to me, trial with QuickTime new version didn’t work…

P.S. the strange thing is that an Apple service center staff can’t explain aything about this to me. (He told me that ‘Apple’s never heard about this issue… hmm…)

Comment on Acer Aspire One Touchpad Evaluation by Brian Jarvis, UMPC Geek » Blog Archive » Acer Aspire One Full Review

Brian Jarvis, UMPC Geek » Blog Archive » Acer Aspire One Full Review — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:45:19 +0000

[...] I have written a full post about the touchpad on this device and will not repeat that content here other than to say there has been a lot written about the less-than-conventional design, but I got used to it in about 10 seconds. Read more here. [...]

Comment on Active Sync Error by Hees

Hees — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:28:12 +0000

I hope you licked it because it could rear its ugly head once you sync with the “other” computer. Or so most of these problems with 86000107 happen, syncing between two computers.

Comment on iPod Touch Time Bug by bljarv

bljarv — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:25:48 +0000

This is a problem that is driving me crazy. For a while it went away, but nothing I have tried has fixed it. I tried the latest version of Quicktime and I am still experiencing the problem (glad that bigvernfoster isn’t).

I think the time zone issue is just more evidence of a bug in the system. It doesn’t seem like this is getting any resources at Apple.

Comment on iPod Touch Time Bug by bobrock93

bobrock93 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:20:01 +0000

OK, my problem sounds a bit different.
My IPT is set to Los Angles time zone, when I try to change it to Halifax time zone it will set it, but the second I leave the settings option it resets back to Los Angles time.

Comment on iPod Touch Time Bug by bigvernfoster

bigvernfoster — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:28:10 +0000

If you install the newest version of Quicktime, the bug will be fixed. Works like a charm.