On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Jonathan Gordon <jdgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > What has how you set it got anything to do with it being a setting or > not? Time does not magically change when you give your DAP to your > sibling. >
No, but it changes when you enter another time zone. Or daylight savings changes. Or the battery dies. Which makes it really handy to have a setting that allows you to set (notice the use of that word by both you and me) the clock. Good lord, "Time and Date" is listed under Settings for any number of devices, operating systems, and miscellaneous things. Look at your phone. Look at your personal computer. How is this even contentious? Time and Date are values that can be displayed. Time and Date, in the real world, don't change. But the specific time and date you're experiencing can change. Or can be forgotten due to power failure. The setting isn't expected to change the outside time, so there's no expectation for it to magically change when you're giving your DAP to your sibling. Time passes one second at a time. You're setting the frame of reference your device will track time within. But "Local reference moment for tracking of time" isn't the normal setting name. People expect it to be "Time & Date" or "Date & Time" or some appropriately localized variant.
