Thank you. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266
Please consider the environment before printing this email On 09/06/2013, at 5:12 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > As Neil has mentioned your phone should automatically adjust when it picks up > its location in the new time zone as it has GPS > > On your MB you need to have "Set Time Zone automatically using current > location" in System Preferences > Date & Time - Time Zone. > You need to Turn on WiFi to determine your current location. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 09/06/2013, at 4:32 PM, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, your phone has inbuilt GPS and will automatically check for network >> access and soon obtain the info to know where it is – the macbook has to get >> that info from somewhere. >> >> According to this >> <http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/automatically-set-time-zone-by-location.php> >> Generally your Mac won’t have GPS, so instead this works by checking the >> visible Wi-Fi networks against a database of their locations. As a result >> this only works when your AirPort is turned on, but it isn’t necessary for >> you to be connected to the internet through it. Of course this also works >> much more accurately in urban areas where there are lots of Wi-Fi networks >> around. >> >> So, did you have your macbook turned on, with Airport turned on, whilst in >> range of local wi-fi networks? >> >> HTH >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >> on 9/6/13 15:51, Stuart Breden at [email protected] wrote: >> >> An interesting question about international travel. >> >> I went on a conference in South America recently. >> >> As you know when you fly east from Australia you cross the international >> date line. >> >> Presumably both the iPhone and MacBook Pro would adjust to local time if you >> set the Settings and System Preferences correctly. I did this supposedly >> but had problems with my Mac Book Pro. >> >> Hints or suggestions? >> >> Stuart Breden >> PO Box 132 >> Kalamunda WA 6926 >> Ph: (08) 9257 1577 >> Mbl: 0417 053 266 >> >> Please consider the environment before printing this email >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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