{"id":1113,"date":"2016-08-05T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2016-08-05T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:41:24","slug":"blindsided-by-timezones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/05\/blindsided-by-timezones\/","title":{"rendered":"blindsided by timezones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got back from a holiday from another timezone.\u00a0 It was a yearly pilgrimage to visit my parents in the Midwest.\u00a0 The food was great, the weather was great, family was great but technology was on par with last millennium.\u00a0 My children didn&#8217;t have the bandwidth to download any new games but they were still able to play minecraft together.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when the children&#8217;s kindles no longer connected to my network at home.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t seem to be a wlan problem as other devices could connect to the network but more importantly the Kindle&#8217;s could see my neighbors networks.<\/p>\n<p>While checking into this I saw that some patch was installed during my holidays.\u00a0 Was this patch responsible for the problem?\u00a0 Was the device dropped?\u00a0 Too many xray&#8217;s at the airport.\u00a0 Is there a problem with my wlan?<\/p>\n<p>Troubleshooting checklist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>turn off and on the wlan<\/li>\n<li>restart the device<\/li>\n<li>drop and recreate the wlan entry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google was full of similar situations and I was busy scratching my head but it was my wife who had a fresh idea.\u00a0 Enable a hotspot from her tablet and try to connect.\u00a0 It worked, the kindle connected to the hotspot and pointed out the difference in the timezone.<\/p>\n<p>The timezone wasn&#8217;t the biggest problem but it was wrong as well.\u00a0 Simply changing the timezone made the difference.\u00a0 All of a sudden my wlan showed up in the list networks &#8211; and worked shortly after that.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what strange behaviors exist in some of the other muli-million line code bases &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got back from a holiday from another timezone.\u00a0 It was a yearly pilgrimage to visit my parents in the Midwest.\u00a0 The food was great, the weather was great, family was great but technology was on par with last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/05\/blindsided-by-timezones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paranoidprofessor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}