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World Clock has wrong times

i'm having an issue with my world clock. my date and time are set to automatic, and my time zone is set (san francisco), and the time at the top of the phone is correct -- but in world clock, the time for London is local and New York and San Francisco are 5 and 8 hours behind respectively. I've reset my settings as well as restarted the phone (sleep and home button together). No dice. I have latest iphone and itunes versions. please help - its driving me crazy.

Posted on Aug 28, 2007 4:56 PM

40 replies

Oct 23, 2007 11:54 AM in response to cwebber1

That stinks. Since I was fortunate enough to have the problem "self-correct" without doing a reset or anything else to my iPhone, it does appear to be related to the time and zone info at&t is passing.

Oct 29, 2007 6:36 PM in response to gmac619

Had the same issue - first noticed it only effected the time stamps on Email

Then noticed that the calls record had incorrect times

Then noticed the world clock was screwed.

I was traveling between AZ and CA, so thought it might be a regional AT&T clock issue

Did a few resets, and then the fault appeared to clear itself - not all at the same time though!

First one feature was correct, then another came on line etc etc - strange!

Nov 7, 2007 11:48 PM in response to gmac619

I'm having the same problem here - random times all the time. Problem happened twice today. A little frustrating if you use the calendar and reminders quite frequently. No rhyme or reason either- random jumps. Tonight it was off by an hour and 38 minutes. I'm glad I don't live in that time zone. Seriously though - looks like just a bug. Apple - any ideas?

Nathan C

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Nov 8, 2007 6:41 AM in response to Mark Hursh

Mark Hursh,

Time and local time zone are updated automatically by the cell tower.

If you see it jumping regularly in your area, by an hour, and live close to the border of your time zone, you could be picking up a tower in another time zone.

If its jumping by something like an hour and 38 minutes, the time on one of your local towers could be off.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

Dec 7, 2007 3:14 PM in response to Nathan C

Hi Nathan!

Thanks for the help. Maybe it's a local tower issue - just never noticed it on any other cell phone. Occasionally I'll look down and the time will read 3:08 when it's really 8:00. Can't really explain this one - just looks like an odd glitch.

iGary

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Feb 21, 2008 7:00 AM in response to gmac619

Just providing a little "me too" (maybe).

A few days ago I was skiing up at Wolf Creek Ski Area in Colorado, which is in the same time zone as Albuquerque where I live.

The time on my phone was an hour off at the ski area, but a friend who is also an AT&T subscriber had his phone and his time was correct. So it seems to be not solely an issue with the tower.

When a few miles away from the ski area, the time was back to correct.

gmac619 Author

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Aug 28, 2007 5:12 PM in response to Ian Anderson3

hi - thanks for the message but that's not the case; SF is at the top. The basic problem is that all of the times in World Clock are wrong. The entire world clock is running 8 hours behind.

gmac619 Author

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Aug 28, 2007 8:24 PM in response to Ian Anderson3

anyone else have an idea? i've resorted to manually setting the time so now the phone time and three locations in the world clock are correct, but i'd much rather have it automatic. plz help, apple!

Oct 13, 2007 12:10 PM in response to gmac619

I am having the same problem now with 1.1.1 - Every clock is off by 1 hour. The iPhone time is correct, just the world clocks are incorrect. I've even restored the phone with no success.

kmosh100

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Oct 13, 2007 1:23 PM in response to El Scottcho

Mine reads:

London 21:20
Wash DC 16:20
San Fran 13:20
Honolulu 10:20
Singapore 04:21
Tokyo 05:20
Baghdad 23:20

All looks fine to me.

Have no idea why you may be having problems.

zoomdad

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Oct 15, 2007 11:46 AM in response to gmac619

I recall having this problem early on and resolved it by finding a day light savings time switch somewhere. Sorry I don't recall where it was but it fixed the one hour difference.

kmosh100

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Oct 15, 2007 12:43 PM in response to zoomdad

Set automatically does in fact take Daylight Savings time into consideration.

Oct 15, 2007 8:25 PM in response to gmac619

Similar problem with mine. 1.1.1 - iPhone clock is fine, I am in southern California but if I choose Cupertino (same time zone) it shows slow by one hour.

Oct 16, 2007 1:50 PM in response to David Slazyk

I was in the AT&T Store last night and mentioned this. Apparently they were just notified that this is a known issue in 1.1.1

Oct 16, 2007 1:56 PM in response to Curtis Antos

Interesting. I'm wondering if things will be fine on Nov 4 after we set our clocks back an hour. Not sure about those that are having more than an hour offset.

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