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I know Porsches are rather scarce here in the heartland of the US... but, I tried setting my time zone on the PCM.. only to find there is NY Time Zone (-5GMT) and Mexico City Time Zone (-6GMT) but no sign at all of Central Time zone.. or Mountain Time Zone.

What's a traveler to do? I tried the Mexico City setting, that didn't work since I guess they don't have Daylight-Savings (called "Summer Time" on the PCM).

Seems like a rather odd oversight....

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All should be based on GMT.

In the US that would be:

EST = -5 GMT

CST = -6 GMT

MST = -7 GMT

PST = -8 GMT

For DST just add +1 -- so CDT would be -5 GMT.

I would think you set your local timezone and as you drive PCM should change it for you as you pass into a different zone. That would seem logical - but I have tried using Porsche's PCM.

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All should be based on GMT.

In the US that would be:

EST = -5 GMT

CST = -6 GMT

MST = -7 GMT

PST = -8 GMT

For DST just add +1 -- so CDT would be -5 GMT.

I would think you set your local timezone and as you drive PCM should change it for you as you pass into a different zone. That would seem logical - but I have tried using Porsche's PCM.

Loren - true except for daylight savings.. :) So I'd have to select EST (-5GMT with no "summer" time selected..) I tried selecting "Mexico City" -06 GMT but apparently since Mexico City must not use DST, it still wasn't right.

And yes - you would think it SHOULD do it automatically (my Garmin does.. it's along on the dash for the streets the 2010 Porsche $350 disk doesn't know.. and my cell phone does..) but it doesn't. And that's the latest SW update (did the updates about 2 weeks ago when I got the new Navtech disk..) I guess we shouldn't expect too much from a $6,000 GPS that uses $350 update disks.. :( BTW - both the Garmin and the PCM use NavTec maps.. just the Garmin ones are actually updates. The 2010 Porsche updated disk has a data set from 05/2009, and it doesn't include the street a friend lives on that was put in during 2006. I'm not impressed.

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Don there is nothing impressive about the Nav, it was defined in 2002 and contracted out. Any map updates are a premium but the technology remains 2002. There are times I will use PCM and other times I will use TomTom on my iPhone, just the way it is.

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I agree there is nothing impressive (except the original price and the prices for map updates..) I do like the instrument cluster display, and that the lady in the dash doesn't nag me with "Recalculating (you idiot!") like the Garmin does. I have SWMBO to handle that task on this trip..

I do use the Garmin when I really want to know where I'm going, it's POI's and street maps are much more up to date (05/09 vs 06/11)..

I switched it to Mexico City this AM, and it happily DID adjust the time zone including "summer time".. have a few more states to go before I go looking for -7GMT.. ;)

Best,

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