Date and time on my iPhone keeps changing to GMT or Cupertino time

@mavisXP - thanks very much, but I have no idea how to do that! Sounds complicated!

am from chennai, Airtel. I have the same problem. The time of all my mails are in GMT. My calendar is screwed too but since I sync from my powerbook - if i fix the problem everything would be fine later.

If anyone finds a solution please blog about it and provide the URL to the forum. So much for a device that has time screwed up!

Has happened to me too. Where the **** is Cupertino 🙂

GTWiecz wrote:
Where the **** is Cupertino 🙂

are you being serious? it's apple's headquarters.

Dear all,

I have posted feedback for Iphone @ Apple site. http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Let the Apple understand our problem.

Regards,
Sam

Hi Guys,

I am also from Mumbai, using locked version of Vodafone based iPhone.

Till now, no problems faced with the timezone. Things are working pretty smoothly.

These are my settings:

Settings - General - Date & Time - Time Zone - Mumbai (Bombay) / 24 Hour time off

Settings - Genral - International - Region Format - India (I am sure this won't affect the things but posting just for the reference)

Also, any symptoms where the time zone changes? (Like you connect to the PC or may be do some specific taks)

Start noting down the things so this way we can trace the problem.

Tech guys at Vodafone are simply stupid (most of them - not all), so forget getting help from them. They are probably gonna search forum threads here or in google and give suggestions lol

Regards,
Deep

Okay, there is one more setting for timezone:

Settings - Mails, Contacts and Calendar - Scroll down to Calendar and set Time Zone Support option as Mumbai or whatever your city is. Basically it should match with your timezone.

Tried the suggested setting in multiple combinations..
the change (of time automatically) happens atleast twice a day with me.. more often earlier.

Still no solution.
Vodafone is of no help.. nor is apple geared up in India to support us.

Feel really stupid how such a bug was not spotted earlier.
Did not do any trial runs before launch ??

Someone please help.

Did you try the things mentioned in both of my replies and then restart the iphone? (I am not sure how it will help but just give it a shot)

and if that too does not work.. restore your software version to previous version and update to recent version again.. (download a fresh copy and see)

My iPhone 3G kept reverting to Cupertino time. It now seems to be fixed by down loading 2.0.2 and then performing full restore. Hope this helps.

I'm also fed up with the same issue. Till we get resolution I've set my phone to GMT, now atleast time does not change but my clock for other countries are messed up.

@avidmani - Thanks for sharing that. With me, the time error comes twice a day - once in the morning around 8.40am (or when I'm near one location between Lower Parel and Mahalakshmi) and then in the evening (I will track that today and post here again).

I'm not touching any settings on the iphone, simply because I'm too scared! If anything goes wrong, I know Apple will cancel my warranty and blame me for any mistake (I've had too many encounters with these large companies to know that none of them will ever support the customer). Vodafone, of course, will say they didn't manufacture the phone and can't be blamed.

I'll have to endure this miserable problem, even after paying Rs35,000 for this premium phone in India.

Given this experience, it's clear that Apple doesn't care much about their customers. After buying an ipod Nano, a Macbook and now an iPhone, I'm not buying an Apple product ever again, and will certainly not be recommending it to anyone I know.

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Update - My iPhone didn't change time today. This means that the change in time zone happens only when I pass a certain area (and since I didn't pass that area today the time remained the same). I will re-test this tomorrow when I pass that area again.

However, there's another problem. While the display time is accurate, the time in 'Recents' seems to be on its own trip. For example, when I called on the iphone right now, it showed the time of the call as 8.10pm (which is correct) but showed an earlier call as the most recent call (showing it's time as 9.17pm..which hasn't even happened yet).

Bottomline - there is still a bug that is messing up the time inside the iphone.

Help Apple!!