Why does my date and time change at random?

[Android Central Question]

I have an LG 7, and I have been having this strange issue recently. It mostly happens in my apartment when connected to our wi-fi, so it may have something to do with that.

Google and everything else internet-centered on my phone will suddenly stop working, and it will say because my date and time are wrong. I go into my settings to check, and the date will then be showing as a date in 2000 (today it was February 28th, 2000), and and hour behind what it should be. I always have "set automatically" on, so I turn it off and turn it back on to temporarily fix the issue. This generally happens around five times a day and it only started recently.

I looked for help online, but the only similar examples were issues people were having with daylight savings time. My issue does seem to have that partly, but I have no idea why the date is being changed to February 2000. Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this?

 

[belodion]

Does this persist in Safe Mode? https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

 

[Rukbat]

If it's set to automatic, it should be getting the date, time and timezone from the cell tower. It would take a really bad rogue app to be changing that. Do you have an "iffy" cellular connection at home?

 

[11B1P]

I have an LG 7, and I have been having this strange issue recently. It mostly happens in my apartment when connected to our wi-fi, so it may have something to do with that.

Google and everything else internet-centered on my phone will suddenly stop working, and it will say because my date and time are wrong. I go into my settings to check, and the date will then be showing as a date in 2000 (today it was February 28th, 2000), and and hour behind what it should be. I always have "set automatically" on, so I turn it off and turn it back on to temporarily fix the issue. This generally happens around five times a day and it only started recently.

I looked for help online, but the only similar examples were issues people were having with daylight savings time. My issue does seem to have that partly, but I have no idea why the date is being changed to February 2000. Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this?

Do you live close to two time zones?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Also, do you control your wi-fi, or is it a shared wi-fi network, like for a whole apartment building? If it's not your private network, then the network might be routing through a server in a different timezone. I've seen this before, where I connected to a wi-fi network at a local restaurant and noticed the system clock on my Pixelbook change to some different time zone (and if I do anything that automatically locates me, it thinks I'm in Kansas, not California).

This kind of thing can happen with VPNs as well.