My iPhone and Macbook are out of sync!

October 18, 2008 12:19 AM

Why is my iCal out of sync by one hour between my Macbook and my iPhone?

Okay... this seems to have happened ever since the switch to daylight savings recently. My Macbook was set on Adelaide time, for some reason, instead of Brisbane time - thus changing my time by an hour. I changed it to Brisbane time when I noticed, because Brisbane doesn't participate in daylight savings.

But ever since then, my iCal reminders have been out of sync.
An example: my alarm is set for 8.30pm to remind me to take my birth control pill. The alarm goes off at 7.30pm on my iPhone, and 8.30pm on my Macbook.

I tried deleting all the events from both my iPhone and Macbook and starting again, but after plugging my iPhone into the Macbook and synching the two, it gets all messed up again!

If I change the reminder on my iPhone to 8.30pm, it pushes my Macbook's reminder time back to 9.30pm!

I don't get it! There has to be a simple explanation.

posted by mjao to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Best answer: I had a similar problem with my iPod touch a few weeks ago. Have you changed the time zone settings on the phone itself? Go to the phone's settings menu and look for time zone support under the calendar preferences. Make sure that you've got that set on the one you want.
posted by mariokrat at 6:42 AM on October 18, 2008

Go to the Advanced tab in iCal's preferences. Is "Turn on time zone support" checked?
posted by Zozo at 12:22 PM on October 18, 2008