Companion app time problem

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:05:20PM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 
> It's probably getting the time from GPS data and failing to convert to the 
> local timezone. I've seen other Android apps do this -- Waze always shows 
> universal time for me, it's weird when it says I'll arrive at 2:00 am when I 
> go home from the office in Portland.
> 
> The Olson database says Fiji did not have summer time between 2000 and 2009, 
> but even if that were the issue, it would be showing one hour earlier, not 
> after.
> 
> It's also showing that you exited summer time this Sunday, so caching could be 
> an issue. But again it's in the wrong direction. If it's caching, that would 
> imply the companion app is getting the cached value of GMT+13 instead of the 
> current GMT+12.
> 
> Maybe it's cached by the Android runtime itself.

We did switch from GMT+13 to GMT+12 last Sunday. But Linus even rebooted
his phone and it still is wrong.

/D