HTC clock widget bug?

[dannzeman]

I had a problem with the HTC Clock Widget displaying the time an hour ahead. I clicked on the clock, selected World Clock>Menu>Local Time Settings then I unchecked 'Automatic', set my Time Zone from -5 to -6 (the correct setting), then rechecked 'Automatic' and its been good ever since.

I would love to know if this works for anyone else.

 

[KSmithInNY]

Doesnt work for me, did it and it worked for a few seconds until my phone got a new GPS lock and viola ..... back to Ontario, California time.

I tried everything under the sun and the only way its correctable is if you turn GPS loc off and set the time to local or "home" but now you no longer get real time weather updates and you also dont get automatic time change when you switch time zones.

 

[dannzeman]

Oh, I didn't realize that. I haven't had my GPS turned on since I fixed the clock. I'll try it tomorrow while I'm out and see what happens.

 

[doublebullout]

Any updates on this issue? I'm back in my "home city" and the HTC clock widgets seem to be displaying the correct time now.

 

[yoda288]

I have a similar issue.

The "Network" clock displays correct time. The "Flip" clock display is one hour ahead. BUT when I drive to the next town 10 miles south of me the "Flip" clock displays the correct time.

I live in St Peter MN, IMO it thinks I'm in St Petersburg FL?

That's awesome. I live in St. Peters, MO and am having the exact same problem

 

[KSmithInNY]

This might make me sound like an A-hole but i hope everyone with this issue files a report with HTC like i did.

As with any piece of technology, the more complaints, the higher the issue goes on the "fit-it" list.

 

[Peterlb]

Its happening to me too. It shows 7 hours ahead. But when I'm on a cell call - the clock refreshs to the correct time, but then goes back to the wrong time again.

 

[robber]

I had the problem out of the box on my first hero. I got my replacement yesterday (cracked screen, my fault) and the htc clocks were working great. Woke up this morning, chnaged to a scene that had one of the clocks and now it is 4 hours fast.

Definite bug.

 

[c3PreO]

I have both the Sprint BB Tour 9630 and the Hero. Both are set for "Network Time".

The Hero runs 5 minutes slower than the Blackberry. Like I said, both are set to update the time from the network. I wonder if the Hero really has a bug in its clock function???

BTW, the Blackberry is the same time as my PC time which is set to the Colorado Atomic clock (Internet time). The Hero is 5 minutes behind.

Does anybody have a Blackberry and Hero too?? Could you verify if this is true for you too?? Or is it just localized to the Seattle area???

 

[gmichie]

Weird (and really irritating). My clocks have all been fine for 2 weeks, but all of a sudden today I have what seems to be the opposite problem of everyone else in this thread. The clock on my HTC widget is fine, but the clocks in the taskbar and the lock screen are an hour behind. I'm in Chicago.

 

[wysiwyg]

This morning now the "network" clock in upper RH corner is 1 hour behind. I shut of automatic update and reset the time.

Called Sprint this morning and they told me they would look into it and call back, guess what they never called back. I called them after work and they put on forget for 20 minutes until I hung up.

 

[gmichie]

I restarted mine and the clocks are all fine again.

 

[ERDude]

The only clock widget that works for me is the one combined with the weather all the others are 7 hours off. Doesn't matter if I use +7 or -7 the time is still 7 hours ahead of what it should be. Definite bug with the other widgets.

 

[eddieroger]

+1 in the "it used to work, but now is broken" list. Subscribing in case someone figures it out.

 

[uminchu]

Weird (and really irritating). My clocks have all been fine for 2 weeks, but all of a sudden today I have what seems to be the opposite problem of everyone else in this thread. The clock on my HTC widget is fine, but the clocks in the taskbar and the lock screen are an hour behind. I'm in Chicago.

Same deal in Aurora. Funny thing is, when I go to neighboring towns like Naperville or Geneva and the widget specifies those towns, I get the right time. When the widget says "Current City", I get the right time. When it says "Aurora" or "Chicago", the two largest cities in Chicagoland, it's an hour slow.

I'd hoped that the change back to CST might help but nope, still an hour slow. This has become an ongoing joke among my fellow phone whore friends and co-workers. Everyone immediately laughs and rattles off one liners based on "Hey, nice phone, but I wonder what else is wrong with it."

It really makes me laugh to think that QC at both HTC and Sprint would be so lax as to allow such an obvious bug to dominate the phone's home screen. It's even funnier that they haven't done anything about it, if for no other reason than to wipe some egg off their faces.

 

[craho]

Just chiming in to see if there has been a solution yet. The only HTC widget that works for me is the original one. It's annoying. Apparently the 'you' that this phone gets lives in a different time zone than me.

 

[itzkhanh]

Same problem here. It shows time as 3 hours behind when I'm in a certain city but shows correct time if I'm in the surrounding cities 10 minutes out. I hope they fix this bug its quite annoying.

 

[jhilker]

I recently swapped out for my 3rd Hero (in a little over 30 days). I hope I have the main issue of memory leakage solved (can't use Bluetooth until HTC/Sprint release a WR - which should be in the next couple of weeks). However, I found that my HTC Clock/Weather widget has stopped displaying weather. Also found that the "follow me" option in Weather isn't working either.

Finally downloaded Weatherbug Elite for $1.99 from Market. I've just given up on this HTC widget. I really like this option. To be honest, the clock/weather widget did take up a lot of real estate!

 

[monkeyzero]

I had this same problem anytime my Hero and i traveled 88 mph.

OK, that's funny...Nice subtle reference

 

[monkeyzero]

Same deal in Aurora. Funny thing is, when I go to neighboring towns like Naperville or Geneva and the widget specifies those towns, I get the right time. When the widget says "Current City", I get the right time. When it says "Aurora" or "Chicago", the two largest cities in Chicagoland, it's an hour slow.

I'd hoped that the change back to CST might help but nope, still an hour slow. This has become an ongoing joke among my fellow phone whore friends and co-workers. Everyone immediately laughs and rattles off one liners based on "Hey, nice phone, but I wonder what else is wrong with it."

It really makes me laugh to think that QC at both HTC and Sprint would be so lax as to allow such an obvious bug to dominate the phone's home screen. It's even funnier that they haven't done anything about it, if for no other reason than to wipe some egg off their faces.

Just got my Hero 2 days ago, live in Aurora too. Having the same issue. When I drive into the city (Chicago) it's fine. I think the phone thinks we're in Aurora, CO. My wife came up with that and it makes sense. Apparently the widget is defaulting to the time of the first city/state combo on the list regardless of GPS location. So, if it sees Aurora as the GPS location, it uses the first Aurora listed in the cities list which is Aurora, CO, being that C comes before I in the alphabet. Annoying indeed. Hopefully there's a fix soon but seeing that this thread started almost 2 months ago and is ongoing, I'm not holding my breath.