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
