Asking Siri for the time??

I'm another one - this used to work just fine for me when I got my 4S, I could say "What time is it" and Siri would tell me. For the last week or so if I ask I know get "I'm sorry, I don't know what time it is in xxxx road". Likewise, if I ask what the weather is, rather than tell me the local weather it will say "The weather for England is..."

However, I've got another glitch which I think could be related. When I've used location services with any of my iPhones, including my 4S when I got it, especially indoors where the GPS signal is poor or there is none, it's quickly got a fix on my approximate correct location presumably using WiFi and mobile phone mast data, and then within a short while it has refined this once it's got a GPS fix.

My 4S started doing this when I first got it, but now when I try it always places me about 30 miles to the east of my correct location until it eventually manages to get a GPS fix after a couple of minutes. I'm guessing it doesn't actually think this is where I am, its just that the only non-GPS fix it can get is so vague that it knows it's somewhere 'about' there, give or take 30 miles. And I think this might explain the Siri glitch; when Siri can't get a reasonably accurate location fix, it only gives generic weather and throws a wobbly not knowing which time zone you are in to report the weather. I'm not sure why location services are this innacurate on the 4S, like I say my previous iPhones have managed to get it down to about 250m without any GPS assistance and my two daughters' iPod Touches both manage the same on WiFi alone.

I've just tried an experiment that seems to support my theory above:

I asked Siri the time and got "I can't tell you the time in Limes Road". (There's no Limes Road anywhere near here)

I checked the Maps app and it was reporting me a long way away with a large 'margin of error' blue circle.

I waited until Maps had picked up a GPS signal and correctly refined my location

Asked Siri the time again and got the correct response.

So it looks like when you ask Siri the time, unless it can get a quick and accurate fix on your location, it fails.

Same happens for weather - gives me a general forecast for England unless it's already got a fix on my location.

hi

I had the same problem and it would bug me endlessly. But after I asked it once, what was the time in London (where I live) every time after that I asked "What's the time?" it told me. Same with the date. I think you just have to ask it for the time in your current location (away from big cities maybe just say England or United Kingdom) for the first time, and every time after that it just assumes you want the time or date for the same location or area. I hope this works for you, because I'm very relieved to have figured out how to make it work for mine.

I just asked, "Siri, What time is it?", and she promptly replied :"It is 7:23 pm. Good evening Ron". Also a small clock clock is displayed.

I then asked 'what is the date, and she replied correctly.

Mine's working fine.

A couple of weeks ago, I couldn't get Seri or for that matter the microphone to work very well and gave up trying for a while, but for the last couple of days, voice has been really quick and almost flawless. So has Seri.

Hi, I also had this problem. When asked the time or date, Siri would reply "I'm sorry I don't know the time/date in [my address]. My solution was to delete my address from contacts and then re-enter it. It now works okay.

Im in the UK when I ask the time it says it cant tell me the time then states my street name. But If i say good morning when its afternoon it will correct me and give the correct time.

So it knows where I am even though its not supposed to work outside of the US and it knows the time, Its not making the connection between the 2. If I say to Siri Im in manchester it says ok then if I asked the time it says the time in manchester is xxxx,

Im sure they will get round to fixing it as its only a beta.

Another thing to note the UK only has 1 time zone so it shouldnt need to know your exact location, just that your in the UK and the current date.

It only seems to be a problem outside the US for those people with location services turned on. I'm in New Zealand and I also get the rubbish response telling me I can't get the time for my street address.

Interestingly, if I ask Siri "What is the local time?", I get the response; "I found this for you" with a Wolfram Alpha printout showing US Pacific Standard Time instead of New Zealand time. Siri obviously thinks she is back in California even though my location services are switched on and working fine.

It's a great way to get it to tell you where you are though, especially as in the UK it won't actually tell you your location if you ask for it - beta issues?

I just got a new replacement 4s and it works differently to the old one - less efficently somehow. I now have to ask it the time in London to get it. fml

Good luck people and let me know when Siri goes live as a proper app'

Daren

Adi Himpson wrote:

I'm having the same problem. It is really annoying me as I used the same phrase in the old voice control and it worked just fine. I used it almost every day on my bike to see just how late I was running for work!

If I ask "what time is it in Oxford?" Siri replies just fine but a simple "what time is it?" give the same nonsense answer that you are getting. Siri is trying to be too clever and use the ezxact location, down to street level, rather than just more generally (ie city or country level).

Very very annoying and I'll be delighted if anyone can provide a solution to this!

Ta!

Adi :)

It may relate to having turned off the automatic time zone checking to conserve battery power....

hi,

I got a replacement phone and have similar probems, Siri doesn't know the time or date and when asked for the weather, show it for a completely different city (allbeit nearby)!

Did you have any problems setting Siri on again after putting it off? As there's a message about information being removed from Apple Servers...

does not work here (Brazil) either...

"time and date"

"what time is it"

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For UK, all u need to ask is current UK time. Works fine. If u ask "what is the time" it uses GPS and doesn't locate well if indoors etc.

I tried a similar experiment. With location services on, Siri doesn't know the time where I am. If I turn location services off, he can tell me the time when I just ask, "What's the time?". With it on, and asking for the UK time, he can tell me.

But he answers with the 24 hour clock, which can sound confusing, for instance "22.12" sounds like "twenty to twelve". I tried asking him to tell me the time using the twelve hour clock, and he gave me GMT, which is an hour behind British Summer Time, which we are in now.

Any ideas on getting Siri to use the twelve hour clock accurately?

Is location services turned on?

Open clock app. As you know there are world clocks. Add yours. And also be sure that the Location services are opened. Try again. I hope that will help.