Daylight Saving Western Australia

[Tony Errington]

I have a 7130g purchased from Telstra before Western Australia started its Daylight Saving trial in 2006. It is now running under software version 4.2.1.66on the handheld and Desktop Manager 4.1.1.9. Synchronisation with Outlook 2003 (running under Windows XP SP2) has always changed appointment times by 1 hour during daylight saving periods despite (I believe) all the correct Microsoft patches being applied). I only recently upgraded the handheld to 2.4 so that has not been tried with daylight saving. I do not use email synch of any type and have no link to a BES. I recently upgraded to Outlook 2007 and want to switch carriers to Vodafone and purchase a Blackberry Bold on which I will use BIS. My question is whether I will still have the daylight saving problems or will everything work fine when WA switches over to daylight saving again :confusedin October 2008.
Tony Errington

[GaryCutri]

Hi,

BlackBerry smartphones running the following BlackBerry Device Software versions do not support changes in the DST rules for WA:

• BlackBerry Device Software earlier than 4.1.0.344
• BlackBerry Device Software 4.1.0.347
• BlackBerry Device Software 4.1.0.373
• BlackBerry Device Software 4.1.0.375 through 4.1.0.385

Now that you have upgraded to firmware 4.2 you should still download and install the DST patch. To install the patch using the Application Loader tool in BlackBerry Desktop Software, click here.

Thanks,

Gary

[Tony Errington]

Thanks Gary. Have done that. Is there any indication it will work other than waiting till October or trying to change the date on the Blackberry as a trial - which I don't really want to do? There is no obvious change in the list of timezones.

Thanks

Tony