S9 Time zone changes after clocks go back

[Zoostation]

I have an unlocked S9 on Verizon and about 45 minutes after the time change this past weekend my phone changed from Eastern Time to Atlantic Time (initially it flipped back as it's supposed to). I was on automatic date and time when it happened. At first I switched auto off, manually changed to Eastern and turned auto back on to try and force it to get data again (per directions from a previous article on the site). That didn't help so I did a restart and repeated. That didn't help much either. It reverted to Atlantic on just over an hour. I left in manually in the correct Eastern time the remainder of Sunday until Monday morning at work ~10-12 miles away so possibly a different tower?). Changed back to auto at work and it lasted longer, but only about 5 hrs before reverting back to Atlantic. To make this even muddier yet, about 8 months ago when I received the update to Pie was the first time it happened (started after that and there's a thread on it). Nothing I tried worked and Verizon didn't have an answer and just had me go go to manual time. I kept it that way for roughly 2 months before deciding to try and go back to auto. Once I switched it worked fine for several months until we flipped back. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently manually set to Eastern so as not to screw up my work alarms.

 

[B. Diddy]

Is where you live somewhat close to the Atlantic Time Zone?

 

[Zoostation]

I'm closer to Central than Atlantic Roughly 150 miles away from the Central zone line as the crow flies. Probably more than 500 miles from Atlantic time. No US towers in that zone outside of Puerto Rico and I'm not anywhere near there.

Can't type for crap so I've had to edit multiple times.

 

[pizza_pablo]

I would backup everything and perform the dreaded factory reset.

Did you perform a factory reset after receiving the OS update to Android 9 / Pie?
You didn't mention, so I assumed not.

I have always performed a factory reset, after a major OS update, in order to clean the old OS out and set things right.

 

[Zoostation]

That's exactly what I'm hoping to avoid, but may end up doing anyways. Though I don't see how that would fix data I'm receiving from Verizon.

 

[B. Diddy]

You're not using a VPN, right?

 

[pizza_pablo]

That's exactly what I'm hoping to avoid, but may end up doing anyways. Though I don't see how that would fix data I'm receiving from Verizon.

I understand the resistance.
Have you Googled the issue, for answers outside of AC?

 

[mustang7757]

That's exactly what I'm hoping to avoid, but may end up doing anyways. Though I don't see how that would fix data I'm receiving from Verizon.

Try in settings >general managment >reset network

 

[Zoostation]

No VPN.

 

[Zoostation]

Yep that's where I started and how I was reminded of my previous post.

 

[B. Diddy]

Maybe ask Verizon if they need to reprovision the phone?

 

[Zoostation]

Forgot about this until I jumped on the forum for another issue. I'll stop by my local Verizon store and ask about reprovisioning.