Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Android 16 QPR2 lately obtained the choice to tell you when your cellphone’s clock mechanically adjusts to a brand new time zone.
- With a future replace, your Android gadget may additionally inform you the precise time your clock has moved.
- It will save time making an attempt to determine the time distinction your self.
With Android 16 QPR2, which rolled out final month, Google launched alerts each time your cellphone mechanically switches to a brand new timezone. Nonetheless, the characteristic doesn’t inform you precisely what number of hours or minutes your clocks shifted, which might make you’re taking an additional step to look it up on Google in the event you’re unaware of the precise time distinction or need to determine the time the place your journey originated. However Google now seems to have reconsidered and would possibly quickly fill that vacuum.
In a future Android replace, Google may add a manner so that you can know precisely how a lot your gadget’s clock has been adjusted. Within the newest Android Canary construct, we discovered the next references to this addition:
Code
<string title="time_zone_offset_change_notification_title">Clock change</string>
<string title="time_zone_offset_change_notification_body_backward">Clocks moved backward %1$s. You are now in %2$s (%3$s).</string>
<string title="time_zone_offset_change_notification_body_forward">Clocks moved ahead %1$s. You are now in %2$s (%3$s).</string>Though we couldn’t set off the notification or see how it will seem visually, these hints give us an concept of what the notification would comprise.
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As an illustration, in the event you journey from London to New York Metropolis, there’s a five-hour distinction. Your Android gadget would notify you of the precise distinction, and the notification may say one thing like
Clocks moved backward 5 hours. You’re now in Jap Commonplace Time (GMT-5).
There’s a chance that the precise phrasing of the sentence adjustments nearer to rollout, however the essence is more likely to stay the identical. Because the unique alert characteristic took roughly 5 months from being launched in Android Canary to being extra extensively accessible with Android 16 QPR2, we are able to’t say Google will implement this instantly. We’ll guarantee notifying you when the characteristic is nearer to changing into a actuality.
⚠️ An APK teardown helps predict options which will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly on work-in-progress code. Nonetheless, it’s doable that such predicted options could not make it to a public launch.
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