Help Time Zome Problem

lazylocktec · Jul 12, 2012

New out of the box incorrect time zone. Had to uncheck the automatic time zone and set it manually. I can already see a problem when traveling. Been in contact with Verizon and Samsung, they are clueless. Anyone having the same problem

aeroo777 · Jul 12, 2012

Same problem on my two phones. If I check auto time zone it goes to Pacific time zone, but we're in the Mountain zone. I have to uncheck the box and set it manually, which is not ideal for travel.

Kevin B · Jul 12, 2012

I have the same problem with it thinking we're in the Pacific time zone instead of the mountain time zone.

Darkhan · Jul 12, 2012

Same problem here also.

dracozny · Jul 12, 2012

considering it only seems to affect those of you in the Mt timezone, I dont think its the phone. unless someone from the same timezone disputes my theory..

lazylocktec · Jul 12, 2012

Search for user name sandman1515 he also has a timezone post on a Samsung Nexus. Different model same manufacture. After reading his post maybe you might agree that it's a phone/software problem
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/522018-time-zone-problem.html

lazylocktec · Jul 13, 2012

I should receive more information from my Verizon carrier in the next few days I'll let you what I learn. Hope with good news

ajuhawk · Jul 15, 2012

Having the same issue with my S3 in mountain time zone, always wants to change it to Pacific... thought maybe it was just a local tower being wrong (haven't tested it elsewhere yet), but sounds like that's not it.

Doit2it · Jul 15, 2012

It's gotta be a Verizon problem cause it happened to me last night. I was about 50 miles away from home, but nowhere near a time zone line and it switched from central to eastern. I waited till I got back home about 5 hours later and the zone was still wrong. So I unchecked Auto time zone. I just now turned Auto back on and it's fine this morning. I've had my SIII since the 6th.

lazylocktec · Jul 15, 2012

I've talk to Verizon and Samsung called me to learn all about it. I have mentioned all the feed back from us and been very interested on what's going on. Sound like there's going to put a fix on it. I'll keep you guys informed

ajuhawk · Jul 16, 2012

Definitely a Verizon problem - my phone lost 4G for a bit and went to 3G, so I turned on the automatic sync for the time zone and it was fine...once 4G was back, the time was again off... though now instead of selecting the wrong timezone, it's just missing daylight savings (i.e. it's setting it to MST instead of MDT)... maybe they're working on the problem...

GBB0131 · Aug 8, 2012

Having the same issue in Chattanooga on Verizon. i'm thinking it must be a tower near my house having an issue. When I'm home it puts me on Central Time when it should be Eastern, but when i'm out and about in Chattanooga I get the correct time zone.

moonlitday · Aug 9, 2012

I am in the AST time zone and have the same issue. It is defaulting to EST. I do not think it is picking up daylight savings time. FWIW I am in Canada.

Trishamac · Aug 29, 2012

Hi all,

I am in Nova Scotia (Canada) Atlantic Time Zone. I went into my phone and manually updated (from Eastern / Ontario) to Atlantic (even though I had the "automatic update" selected)

It seems to be successful in the weather app... and the Splanner (finally - had my appts today showing up 1 hour later....)

My issue - is my LOCKSCREEN still shows one hour back... and it shows one hour back in the upper right hand corner of my screen.....

????

ajuhawk · Oct 11, 2012

Must've been a Verizon tower issue

Came back from a work trip and still had the auto sync of timezone enabled and it was the right time, has stayed working ever since. I did send Verizon a couple e-mails, though the first one told me how to disable the automatic feature (gee thanks, did you even read my e-mail?) - they then sent a survey form, so I tried again on that... not saying that's what got it fixed, just that I did happen to go through that process and mysteriously it got fixed shortly thereafter.

Hopefully everyone else is also fixed at this point!

candi3188 · Oct 12, 2012

Sorry guys, it's not a Verizon problem. I'm on Sprint. My phone started switching from central to eastern time zones on its own about a week ago. I asked Sprint customer service about it since I had them on the line for another issue and they said it must be a software thing because I thought it might be jumping towers. So I just have it set manually to central for now.

ajuhawk · Oct 12, 2012

I guess I'm not convinced it's a software bug in the phone - I'm running cyanogenmod on my phone and continued to have the problem, but only in my hometown. Anywhere else in the country where I traveled, it worked fine. On 3G in my town, it was fine, only when on 4G in this town was it wrong... then one day it randomly starts working?

Now it is odd that other 4G phones don't have the same issue, but they may be pulling it in differently... All I know is the verizon support guy didn't know what they were talking about... and that now it works for me

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