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
    2023-09-19T12:44:21+00:00

    I am having the same problem. Set my own location default and it still has me at CST not EST. When I try to change the Date and Time and Timezone, the Timezone is not accessible and it's greyed out. Sigh, why?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-16T22:23:56+00:00

    tldr: turning on/updating location services solved it.

    I was having the same clock issues. I didn't even think about the location service settings before reading the earlier posts. I had location off. I turned it on and set it to my current location, then went into the clock/date and toggled on "set timezone automatically". So far it has fixed the issue and my scheduling apps (e.g. Zoom) are working now.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-15T13:52:26+00:00

    I had an almost identical situation where it kept changing my timezone to Osaka Japan instead of London. Eventually i resolved it by turning off my location for the weather app. Strange, the app never caused any issues before.

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