Manually Adjusting Your Palm for the New Daylight Savings Time Rules

On August 8, 2006, President George W. Bush signed into United States law the Energy Policy Act of 2005. As part of this new law, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 was amended, changing the start and end dates of daylight savings time beginning in the year 2007.

Daylight savings time will now start on the second Sunday of March by pushing clocks ahead one hour, and will end on the first Sunday in November when the clocks are pushed back by an hour.

Palm OS handhelds will need to be adjusted to take this change into account. For many people, they will simply mean manually changing the time by pushing it an hour ahead or back. With just a bit of time and the the following directions, you will be able to manually adjust the daylight savings time once and for all.

Note: If you are using a Palm Treo (Palm OS or Windows Mobile) you shouldn’t have to make any changes as long as you have enabled the “Get date & time from mobile network” option is enabled.

Manually adjusting daylight savings time

1. Press or tap the Home button on your Palm until the application launcher is displayed.

2. Tap the Prefs application icon. In the Prefs application, tap the Date & Time tab in the General section.

3. You should now see three settings, Location, Set Date, and Set Time. From the Location field, select Edit List.

4. Tap the name of your city from the list, and then tap the Edit button.

5. At the bottom of the screen, you will see two fields, Start and End. Tap the Start field to edit the new start week for daylight savings. Make the appropriate setting changes and then tap the OK button.

6. Next, tap the End field. Make the appropriate setting changes and then tap the OK button.

7. At this point, the daylight savings time settings for your city should be now set. To complete the changes, tap the OK button and then the Done button twice.