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Thread: Casio Protrek Confusion

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    Master Sharky's Avatar
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    Casio Protrek Confusion

    Hi, just bought a great Protrek 5000-1er and it's a great watch, but I am a little confused.

    The time was out by one hour when I received it, so thought "Ah I know, it's not taking into account DST" so I changed the DST feature to auto and then synced it and all was well.

    However, upon using the World Time feature, London and Paris are the same time, and other areas around the world are also an hour out.

    What gives? Do I literally have to go through each country changing the DST setting to fix the missing hour or am I missing something?

    I did try taking the DST setting off for the main watch and then syncing it, but it still remained an hour behind, even though the watch successfully synced.

    I would have thought that this watch would be able to synchronize the time itself with no intervention from me

    Any help appreciated

    Thanks in advance

    Mark

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    What timezone is the home time set to?

    In your case it should be set to LONdon, then DST to AUTO. Syncing then should show the right time.

    If your home timezone is set correctly you can have my towel....

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    The watch doesn't know whether DST is active or not in a given time zone, which is why you can set that. (The DST rules and dates change pretty often around the world, so if they were pre-programmed they'd soon be out of date.)

    If you know that Paris is on DST at the moment, set it on for that time zone, and then the watch will show the right time for that zone. Same for other zones you're interested in.

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    On most of these watches you have to set the DST manually when in World Time. The watch only knows for sure the DST position for your Home city when it syncs.

    A small number of more recent watches are pre-programmed with world DST changes but there is a risk with these that countries will alter their DST arrangements.




    Mitch

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