Technical Notes

Clock Reset Surprise

There is a bug in the World Clock which may manifest itself in the Zoomer crashes under certain circumstances.

If the "destination" is set to a time zone other than your home time zone, AND the system clock is set to "destination", AND the machine is re-booted for any reason, upon restart, the system clock will be set to the "destination" time zone. That is, the time that was originally the time at the destination becomes the system clock time AND the "home" time. This is due to the fact that the World Clock settings are saved in a State file which is erased each time the system is rebooted. This will be changed in future designs of the World Clock.

Workaround 1: To fix this condition, you must first set the desired "home" city in the World Clock, then tap the Launcher and choose Utilities>Time and Date. Change time and date to correct the system clock.

Workaround 2: After you set the World Clock correctly, switch to another application. Go into the File Manager and locate the state file for the World Clock in B:[INTERNAL]\GEOWORKS\PRIVDATA\STATE.

Copy the file "wclock app (transparent)" to B:\[INTERNAL] or some other backup area, eg. a PCMCIA card. Then, whenever you Reset your PDA, copy this file back into the the STATE folder. When you next open the World Clock it will have the saved settings.

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