Apple Watch Time Wrong

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Apple Watch Time Wrong

When my Apple watch is connected to my iphone, it displays the correct time. When my apple watch is out of range of my iphone, during a run for example, the time on my watch is off and ahead by exactly one hour. It appears as if the watch is not picking up the correct timezone data from the cellular network, but the cellular network connection appears solid. All the normal watch functions work; I can make and receive calls, use voice dictation, and iMessage.

I am using Bell Mobility in the Atlantic time zone.

The moment my watch comes back into range of my iPhone, the time corrects itself.

I have paired and unpaired the watch and iPhone several times. I have reset the watch to factory default, yet the problem persists

My watch is an Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS + Cellular) A1976 running 6.2 firmware. It's paired to my iPhone 6s running firmware 13.4

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Posted on Apr 3, 2020 5:42 PM

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adwyth Author

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Apr 4, 2020 5:23 AM in response to Community User

That apparently worked - thank you!

Dissecting your fix, the watch takes its automatic time zone settings from the iPhone rather than the watch time zone settings being independent of the phone and "baked into" the watch OS. Interesting - thanks again.

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adwyth Author

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Apr 15, 2020 5:27 AM in response to adwyth

Originally, turning off automatic time zone settings seemed to work, but it just slows down the problem's occurance. With automatic time zone set to on, the watch time advances an hour immediately when the iphone is turned off. When automatic time zone is set to off, the watch takes several minutes before advancing its time by an hour once the iphone is turned off. The problem, then, remains. Any ideas?

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Apr 4, 2020 1:22 AM in response to adwyth

Try this,on the phone in settings/general/date and time and turn off "set automatically".

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Answer 4

Apr 4, 2020 5:45 AM in response to adwyth

Stay safe.

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