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Time is wrong on Accuweather.com widget

dr4sight

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I know this has been reported before but I don't see any acceptable fixes. My two Android devices are a HTC One V phone and Samsung Tab 2 7" tablet. I use the Accuweather weather/clock widget on the home screen on both.
On the tablet the time shown exactly (to the second) matches the tablet's clock.
But the cellphone shows significantly different time.
About an hour ago I read a suggestion to put the phone in Airplane Mode and see if the clocks match up. They were off by 19 minutes at the time.
I did it and sure enough the clocks matched when I turned Airplane Mode off.
But now, just an hour later, the Accuweather widget says it 7:12am while the real time and the one shown on the upper right of the phone say 7:33.

Any way to get them to sync?
 
The whole app for Android is off. I have a boatload of apps that need GPS (astronomical) and they can find my location via GPS only. So can Intellicast, and Weatherbug (now deleted). Accuweather simply cannot do it.. and it doesn't take coordinates. Time does depend on location.

Much is also missing. I managed a preview of Accuweather for IOS, and it looked almost like the web page. The jet stream and front map was in the app. It isn't in the Android app. I've had to link to the page via a bookmark in the browser.

Sounds like they developed for Apple first, then Android and were in a hurry. I got the paid version on sale. Feel like a second class citizen.

Why it would be different on the tablet, I don't know. Are they both the same version of Accuweather?
 
Reenter your location. Also sometimes deleting the widget and then adding it back to your screen will take care of it.
 
I don't use the widget. I've reentered location by full 11 digit zip code, and Accuweather still can't find it. It doesn't take street addresses, and I can't enter 103W 88N coordinates, either. I also prefer to look at weather maps and try my own hand at forecasts. The coordinates from the astronomy apps are right on - the National Weather Service has the same. So it isn't my GPS.

I can access the full NWS site and get the altitude of the snow line.

It makes a difference where I live. We deal with altitude along with normal geography.
I've seen it snow on the other side of a street 10 feet above my house, and I'm getting rain. Or it's clear and fairly sunny at my house - roads are dry, go down 400 feet and it's still foggy, wet, and there's black ice on the roads.
 
I solved this problem when checked my time zone from GMT+2 to GMT+3 where this change actually does because of the day light saving we took 1 extra hour and that's it.
 
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