Viewing the Clock on the Kindle 2

eddie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:38:11 +0000

The Kindle 1 has a couple of nice “clock hacks” that will show you the current time.

For instance, on the first generation Kindle, if you hit “Alt-T” on the main screen a clock will appear in the lower right hand corner.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on the Kindle 2 – hitting “Alt-T” does nothing.

There is a way to view the clock in the Kindle 2, though.

To see the clock on a Kindle 2, simply hit the “Menu” key on the main Kindle screen.

Click the menu button and the time appears in middle at the top of the screen.

Recently Read Documents Appearing at End of List on Kindle

eddie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:13:16 +0000

Had the strangest problem with my Kindle today. All of a sudden, my Recently Read Documents started showing up, well, backwards.

Not all of them – only the books I had recently read. So after I would read each book, it would disappear from the first page of my document listing.

At first I thought the books were being deleted, but I did a little searching and found that the book had moved to the last page of my Kindle’s document list.

A little more investigation showed that the date on these books had somehow been set to Jan 1, 1980. Now there’s a “default date” if I’ve ever seen one.

Rebooting the Kindle didn’t fix the problem.

I theorized that the Kindle Clock could be reset over Whispernet, the Kindle’s wireless connection. (I normally keep my Whispernet turned off, to extend battery life.) Turns out I was right.

I turned on the Whispernet connection in the Menu, then chose Menu->”Sync and check for items.” That did the trick – the clock was updated to the current time, and I opened each book, the book’s last access date was reset to the current date.

Note that you’ll have to re-open each item that had its date set back to Jan 1, 1980 to apply to the new settings to that book.

I should note that the problem started a day after I installed the Kindle Screen Saver hack, outlined here. I can’t say if it’s related or not, or if the problem was just caused by resetting the Kindle.

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Viewing the Clock on the Kindle 2

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