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Update is a bit late, but this is worth noting. Previously I slated any technology that didn’t autoupdate its clock due for DST. I got to experience an ‘aha’ moment the next day or so, coming across all sorts of articles about people having been confused either by:

i.  Technology that did not update itself for DST.
ii. Technology that did update itself.

With point ii, some users were not expecting their device to update itself and thus did a manual adjustment of their clocks on top of the automatic one. Cue lots of confusion.

So perhaps T-mobile/Nokia/whoever was responsible for my mobile phone not updating itself was making an optimised decision for a larger number of users.

Context is everything.

Of course, if all the client devices in question displayed a prompt informing the user that the clock had been automatically adjusted, point ii would never have been a problem. But expecting all mobile client devices to work in a sane way is just too much to hope for really.