Time Zone Issue

[air1keh]

So here's something odd. I noticed my clock was slow by one hour after the time change. I go into the date and time settings and noticed that automatic time zone was selected - the network provides the time zone. The problem is the time zone that it provides is incorrect. I live in Seattle which is -8 GMT but the provided time zone is Alaska which is -9 GMT.

Unchecking the automatic time zone box allows me to manually select the correct time zone so it's not a huge deal but I'm unsure why it's doing this. Not sure it's the phone. It almost sounds like a network error. The other thing is that it was working two days ago.

Anyone else had this happen?

 

[SMWAS]

Yeah, I noticed that on Sunday. I live in Orange County, California. I manually selected the correct time zone as well. I checked again Monday morning, and the problem seems to have been fixed. I have automatic time zone selected again, and the time/time zone are correct.

 

[Cybertj.2000]

I've noticed it twice in the last two days, both times I've been driving through downtown Indy and requires a phone reset to resolve. Any permanent fixes would be appreciated

 

[SMWAS]

It happened again to me last night (it was off by 2 time zones). I didn't notice the time was wrong at first, rather I was on my way to an appointment I had calendared and it said my appointment wasn't for another two hours. At first I thought I might have messed up my appointment time in my head, and I almost turned around. Luckily, I noticed the current time was off, or this could have screwed me up. I went ahead and manually locked in my correct time zone, and I plan on keeping that in my settings.

I am curious whether any Verizon customers on other Droids models are experiencing this. My wife uses an iPhone on Verizon, and she hasn't had this issue.

 

[doogald]

Since your phone can get location from WiFi triangulation in addition to cell tower location and the built in GPS radio, I wonder if that's the issue? Google thinks that the WiFi access point your phone can see is somewhere else and changes the location?

If it were me I would do what you have done, but it'd be interesting if it happened again to open an app that shows location (like Google Maps) and see where it thinks you are.

I've tried setting my phone to "device only" for location - so it uses only the built in GPS radio - but that ridiculously won't work with apps like Moto Assist for driving, which insists on using WiFi or cell tower location in addition to GPS for reasons I don't understand. (At least it was that was the last time I tried to set location to that setting.)