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My computer just locked my timezone to Arizona, and absolutely will not allow me to change it. It's causing havoc on alot of my apps that rely on my clock to function, and manually changing the time only seems to change the clock in the corner not the time that all my apps depend on.
I have tried scanning the computer for corrupted files as per a separate post I managed to dig up, but it found nothing to fix. With the clean boot I couldn't figure out what was doing it because it was still grayed out and set to Arizona as soon as it booted.
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I had this same issue, but found a workaround (At least a temporary one)
Right click the date/time toolbar in the bottom right corner, then click "Adjust date/time" from the menu.
In that menu, scroll down to "related settings" and click "Add clocks for different time zones"
This SHOULD bring up a classic windows menu. Click the far left tab for "Date and Time" and select your time zone there. Click "Okay" and then "Apply" and you should be good to go.
Sorry if someone else has posted this. My issue was related to location services in Privacy.
In Settings -> Privacy and Security, I turned "Location Services" on, then I also had to enable "Let apps access your location". Be sure "Settings" is one of the apps that is enabled.
Once those were enabled, I went back to "Time and Language" and was able to click on the time zone and toggled the "Set time zone automatically" and it immediately recognized the correct time zone.
Best of luck to all!
I had the weirdest thing where it will not let me change the time zone because I am not an administrator.
But the actual weird thing is that I am the administrator on my computer but the message still pops up
If none of the above replies work, this might help fix your issue. Open powershell as administrator (in the search box type in pwsh and click on the dropdown underneath it, then click on run as administrator, click yes.) After you have powershell running type:
Set-TimeZone "Your timezone here", for me, since I am in pst, I would type: Set-TimeZone "Pacific Standard Time" if you don't know what your timezone's full name just google it.
(from this post: https://superuser.com/questions/404526/error-when-trying-to-change-the-time-zone-in-windows-unable-to-continue-you-d)
hope this helps.
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