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March 11, 2007

Comments for Daylight Savings Time (DST) change and your GPS: What you need to know

It's March 11th and the new Daylight Savings Time went into effect today. Your PC and cell phone no doubt auto-updated themselves are are displaying the correct time. The situation with your GPS, however, is not so simple. Here's a breakdown of each GPS, how the new DST effects it, and what you need to do to get the correct time:

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Fletch, You forgot the poor folks that owns the Garmin Nuvi 360 which also have an update to version 3.50 which will address the new day light savings time.

Changes made from version 3.40 to 3.50:

Removed + when dialing POI's in the United States
Updated the US Daylight Saving Time for 2007

http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1847

Great work like always, your service is greatly appreciated!

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Thanks Fletch. I downloaded and installed the update and it changed the time.

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I have a Garmin 225 color chart plotter .I would like to find a gcard chip for this gps .

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Update for DST (Daylight Savings Time) for the Nuvi 350 is out now:

http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1675

Changes made from version 4.30 to 4.40:

-Daylight saving changes for United States
-Fixed possible route calculation error in routes involving Cul De Sacs
-Added support for Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Serbian pre-recorded voices
-Fixed trip computer distance display to allow more than 3 digits
-Changed initial locale setup to be consistent with other portable products
-Fixed Mexican locale information
-Fixed problem with naming when saving a coordinate without a name
-Fixed Fodor's data 'All Categories' search
-Fixed text which could alternate between two safety camera texts when within both safety camera zones
-Improved operation when only one or no custom vehicles are loaded
-Changed to avoid unpaved roads by default
-Fixed problem ejecting on Mac computers
-Updated some Swedish and French translations
-Fixed display of traffic event distances which were sometimes missing

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