> 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.
I completely agree with Paul on this point. Kind regards, Bertrik
