Fixit: iPhone displays wrong world time
Well, of all the things, I though you could at least count on a phone to give the right time.
I had never bothered to actually check the world times on my iPhone. I just assumed they were correct. I mean, what’s the point of technology if you had to double check everything, right?
I was fiddling on my phone during a boring meeting in office and to while away the time I started adding places to my world times list. I thought I would add Abu Dhabi (that’s in UAE for the geographically challenged) to the list even though I knew very well it was 1.5 hours behind Indian time. Heck, I grew up there, I should know.
Stuck in a time warp
To my surprise it showed the time several hours ahead of Indian time. So much for technology. I checked the time and date on my phone; right on the dot. What could be wrong, I wondered.
I navigated to Settings > General > Date & Time and I saw that the Set Automatically option was turned ON. I turned it OFF, set the time zone, time and date manually (don’t forget to do this) and well, that was the end of that little glitch.
Sign of the times
I wonder how I know these things. Hmmm.
Alex
This is a new information for me about the world clock in a iphone
is it applicable only to apple iphone or any other iphone i am using HTC can i set this clock in this phone ?
‘apple iphone or any other iphone ‘ – eh? As far as I know, only Apple makes the iPhone.
Since this seems to be a firmware issue and since the firmware is the same for the iPhone 2g and the iPhone 3g, it would be safe to assume that the problem exists for both generations of the phone. I hope this is what you meant by your statement.
I am not sure what you meant by ‘can i set this clock in this phone?’. The world clock application shown here is for the iPhone and is available only for the iPhone.
If you are facing the same problem on your HTC, then a similar fix might help. If this is indeed the problem, then let me know your phone model and I’ll try to help.
Cheers.
after doing all this the phone still has the wrong time for St Barts (Gustavia). I rest the Iphone as described but the world clock still shows 7:32PM when it should show 10:32 AM ; the same as NY during the summer. they are an hour apart in the winter as ST. Barts does not use Day light savings time. How to we make them aware of this or fix it???
The phone ought to support it. The DST changes are handled automatically by the phone and I dont think there is a provision of setting it manually.
You can try contacting Apple about this but I am not sure how much it will help.
Alternatively, you can check the app store to see if there are world time apps available there.