I was in same situation with a magellan roadmate 1212. From what I can tell, the "daylight savings" is not what many of us may be accustomed to... that is, that it means that the location you are at follows daylight savings as happens with Windows or many other devices.
I bet those in Arizona never had a problem becuase they don't follow time zone... let me explain....
The daylight savings seems to state "are we currently under daylight savings time?" if we say yes (as you would normally state in your Windows computer setting (that would determine when daylight starts and stops and adjust pc time accordingly), the magellan 1212 instead will "ADD" one hour to the time stated by the Satellites regardless on whether it is summer ... or not.
So, if you happen to live in a time zone that follows "daylight savings" and you currently are under "daylight savings" time, then set it so in the "time zone".
So, there are two things you have to do:
/menu/user options/system settings/time zone/
1)Set your time zone
2)If currently under Set/unset the daylight savings set button to yes and manually move to no when not on DLS.
The explanation I found in MagellanGPS website is below, but never mentions what is the meaning (I should say effect) of the "daylight savings" button checkmark.
Magellan GPS receivers are not able to set the Time manually. In order
to have the correct time set on your Magellan GPS receiver, you must
set the proper time zone you are located in (ie Pacific, Central or
Eastern). Once the time zone is set the exact hour and minute will
display as information is received from the satellites. The following
information will assist you on setting the time zone on your Magellan
GPS.
For Outdoor Triton series 200, 300, 400, 500, 1500 and 2000
Note: Make sure Daylight Savings is adjusted accordingly.
For Vehicle Navigation series Maestro and RoadMate 1200-1430
Note: Make sure Daylight Savings is adjusted accordingly
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I have the same problem with one BIG addition. When my time zone is set correctly, the time is wrong. The time differential is correct for Central Standard Time (-6 hours from GMT) but the time is off by one hour. So what happens now ? I could set the time zone incorrectly to match my actual time but that's just stupid... it should work the way it was designed.
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