Time zone locked, and options to change are permanently greyed out.

Anonymous
2023-03-24T16:34:12+00:00

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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Anonymous
2023-10-07T19:45:01+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-18T12:12:58+00:00

    This is what helped me work around my issue. I was recently in South Korea and had my clock set accordingly. My main hard drive hadn't had enough space to download a graphics card update so I had deleted a bunch of the Microsoft apps I don't use, including the maps app.

    I followed a previous comment about enabling location services. That at least got my computer to realize I'm no longer in South Korea, but decided I was in CST instead of EST and still wouldn't let me manually change the time zone. I tried re-installing the maps app and setting a default location to an EST city but that did nothing for me. After seeing this comment I went back to location services, turned on "allow apps to access your location" and then under "choose which apps can access your precise location" I enabled it for maps. With that enabled, it still didn't auto-correct itself to EST (with or without the default location set in the maps app) BUT it did make the option to manually adjust my time zone accessible again. So I set it to EST and then disabled location services again.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-14T13:07:09+00:00

    Thank you Nero.Lazarus that worked :-)

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-07T07:54:19+00:00

    Thank you, this helped!

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