Timeline for How to manually set time zone on iPhone while still automatically sync time?
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| Jul 22 at 1:05 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jun 22 at 11:26 | comment | added | hym3242 | The OP's intention is about turning off "auto select timezone" but keep "auto sync time to the selected timezone" on. | |
| Jun 22 at 0:05 | answer | added | bmike♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Nov 23, 2021 at 20:00 | comment | added | JBallin | I didn’t downvote. | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 16:52 | comment | added | bfrguci | @Jballin No issue so far. Seems accurate enough since there is no observable offset after a year. Downvoting is unnecessary though, since Apple did not make it clear that the time is still accurate even when "set automatically" is turned off. The concern is valid because electronics themselves are usually not accurate enough in terms of the clock. Most devices depend on Internet time synchronization to keep this accurate. I wonder what happens if I turn off "set automatically" then manually manipulate the time to something obviously wrong, is it still going to be able to keep it accurate? | |
| Nov 22, 2021 at 15:15 | answer | added | Jaskaran Singh Batth | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 1:26 | comment | added | bfrguci | @JBallin Already doing this... Obviously I do not have another option at this moment. Let's wait and see :-) | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 17:22 | comment | added | JBallin | Seems like your question is “If I set my time zone manually in iOS, will my time be less accurate than if the time zone is set automatically?”. That’s a difficult question for us to answer. I don’t see why it would be less accurate, but I don’t have evidence to back that up. Why don’t you try it and see if you have any issues? | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 17:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 17:15 | comment | added | bfrguci | @JBallin You understanding of my question is correct. My reasoning is: If I turn off "Set Automatically", I can also manually change the time, e.g., the "Sep 25, 2020 9:28 AM" in my screenshot. If I change, because "Set Automatically" is off, the time does not go back accurate. Therefore, even if I do not change, eventually the device's clock could drift and become different from accurate time. I do not know yet how fast it drifts, but if it does not sync, it surely will do. The computer's clock does not tick precisely. It is the common practice to use sync to make the accurate. | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 16:38 | comment | added | JBallin | I’m not really sure what you’re asking. You can manually set a time zone or have the time zone set automatically based on your location. In both situations the time will be accurate. Are you making an assumption that time is only accurate when a time zone is set automatically? What evidence/reasoning do you have for that? | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 15:43 | history | asked | bfrguci | CC BY-SA 4.0 |