Windows 10: Date & Time defaulting to incorrect time zone

My date & time always sets itself to pacific despite the fact that I have "set time zone automatically" disabled and am in the eastern time zone, although it was also doing this when I was in the central time zone. I cannot even turn on "set time automatically" because this setting also switches the time zone for some reason. Outside of this problem my computer correctly detects what area I'm in. I have tried several solutions, such as turning on the windows time service, restarting, updating, and none of them have worked. As a result of this problem I am unable to access some websites du

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Time Zones are incorrect

Hello Scott:



Thank you for posting your time zone experience to the forum. When you have the date + time set to automatic, the date and time become tied to information being pulled from your carrier. If the time zone is changing incorrectly this is something you will
want to contact the mobile operator about.



Outside of this being an issue with the information sent from local cell towers, you can try a couple things on the phone.

• Toggle your cellular connection. Go to settings > cellular/mobile > turn it OFF > back out of settings > reenter cellular settings > turn ON.
• If the issue continues, try performing a soft reset of the phone. The best way to do this is to remove the battery for about 2 minutes and then replace the battery and power the phone on.

If this is something that is a regular inconvenience, we suggest you turn off the automatic time + date and set the phone to manual. Once you go to settings > date + time > OFF > you will be able to manually set the time, date and time zone.



Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.



Mark W.

 

Date and Time, and Time Zone

Hello,

Thank you for posting your concern in our community. We're here to help.

To make sure that your phone has the correct date, time and time zone, please go to
Settings > Time & Language > Date & time. Here, you should be able to make sure that your device's date, time and zone settings are correctly configured.

Note: If you are currently located in a state or country that has a different time zone, please change your phone's time zone setting to the location's time zone.

If you have additional questions, or if the issue persists after the troubleshooting steps above, please let me know by replying to this thread. This way, I'll get notified and respond back to you as soon as I can.

 

Windows 10 Time Zone tool?

Tested this once again and did exactly what the steps from above. After booting into Windows it did change to UTC from the list of time zones from the date and time properties.

The actual time however was still Pacific Time. But when I connected to the internet now the clock shows UTC.

I did a command SYSTEMINFO and under Original Install Date it still has the Pacific Time.

So yes, I can confirm that to show the exact correct time you need to connect to the internet or else it will not work. The only changes that do work when not connected is that the correct Time Zone setting (UTC) appeared on the date/time properties after doing the TZUTIL command during install. But the actual time was still reflected on Pacific Time.