Get your BlackBerry Bold dates and times lined up

Having the correct date, time, and time zone is important when it comes to your BlackBerry Bold for, we hope, obvious reasons. Many of the fine features that make up the BlackBerry Bold core experience, as it were, depend on the time, date, and time zone being accurate.

Need an example? How about your BlackBerry Bold calendar events? Imagine, if you will, that you have a make-or-break meeting set for 9 a.m. (in your time zone) with a client in Paris, France, who is in who-knows-what time zone. You definitely want to be on time for that appointment, but you probably won’t be if you’re planning on having your BlackBerry Bold remind you — that is, if you haven’t set up the appropriate date, time, and time zone. Follow these steps to do that:

1. Press the Menu key, scroll to the Options icon, and then press the trackball.
2. Scroll to the Date/Time setting, and then press the trackball. The Date/Time screen appears.
3. Scroll to your time zone, and then press the trackball. The Date/Time screen confirms the time zone that you chose.
4. Scroll to the Time field and use the trackball to adjust the proper hour and minutes.

5. Scroll to the Date field and use the trackball to adjust the date appropriately.


6. Scroll to the Date/Time Source field, and then press the trackball.This sets your date and time source to your service provider’s server time.


7. To confirm your changes, press the Menu key, and then select Save.
Doing so saves your date and time settings in perpetuity — a really long time, in other words.