I have a Mac laptop with Google Apps as the server. My calendar can then go through ical, Gmail calendar and get picked up by my new Google G2 phone (an HTC phone sold in the US by T-Mobile). It is push and pull (events I put in on the phone hit my ical/Gcal calendars (and my assistant can pick them up) and vice versa.

This works fine except for one thing. When I travel to different time zones, which I do far too often, the phone doesn't adjust to the local time zone the way my Blackberry did. When she schedules a meeting at 10 AM in London, she has to enter it as 5 AM in my calendar. How do people with Android phones deal with changing time zones. The Blackberry was relatively seamless and this seems less good.

Also, when I was in India last week, I couldn't get the data connection working. It works in the US and I got it working in London with T-Mobile's help (they took it on and off the network). So, unless I was in a wifi hotspot, I couldn't get email until I got back to the hotel at night. As someone running a small but very global business, that doesn't work well for me. Has anyone else had problems with getting data connections in various places? T-Mobile has no idea why and kept suggesting strange stuff (the signals are too weak -- well all the folks with iPhones had no problems -- or maybe data roaming is turned off). If yes, how did you fix or improve things?

My Droid X (Verizon) automatically changes to local time when I change time zones.

My android does switch time, but I have the check mark next to using network time of where Im at. Now I cant recall if my calender syncs up, as I usually dont have anything in there. Ill check for u fri, when I land in London.

Settings -> Date & Time

Make sure "Automatic" is checked.

Does that shift your calender too?

I think so, yes.

I'm flying out tomm, land fri, I'll check and post up.

I did have checked the button to take the time from the network but it didn't seem to do anything.

I seem to have a similar problem as the person who started this thread. I just flew out to Kansas City, and a few minutes after turning my phone on in the airport, the time changed to Central time. I flew back to New York a few hours ago, but my phone is still on Central time.

The phone is an LG Ally. When I go to Settings > Date & Time, there isn't anything that says "Automatic." I can only set the time & date formats. There must be a way to set this on this phone. OTOH, it seemed to work when I flew out, just not now. And I did turn the phone on & off too.

Thanks for your help.