How To Fix An Android Phone Clock Showing The Wrong Time

The days of having to manually change clocks are largely behind us. Just about every gadget connected to the internet will automatically detect the local time zone and set itself to the correct time, leaving only things like (some) microwaves and vehicle clocks for humans to adjust. The same is true for Android devices, but that doesn't mean problems are a thing of the past. A software bug or other seemingly mysterious issues can result in your smartphone showing the wrong time. However, it's likely that the Android feature to automatically match the local time zone has simply been disabled.

As with many settings available on Android, users have the freedom to manually change the time presented by their devices, which comes in handy when, for example, traveling to a different time zone. In fact, according to Google, you have to change the time zone itself rather than just the time displayed by the clock, which should help keep things consistent. Once you change the time to match that of your location, it's a good idea to enable Android's automatic time zone feature so that you don't have to repeat the process the next time you hop on a plane or drive across state lines.

Android is a highly customizable operating system, which means that companies are free to add their own custom user interfaces ("skins") on top of the platform on their devices. For this reason, the exact name of Android features — as well as the menus in which they are located — vary slightly depending on the device you're using. However, you can find the time zone and clock features in the same general area on most devices, whether you're digging through One UI on a Galaxy phone or you're rocking a Pixel handset.

1. Tap the Settings app or swipe down from the top of the screen and tap the gear icon.
2. Scroll down through the app and look for a menu that is titled something like Date & Time.
3. On some devices, you'll instead have to open the Clock app, tap the triple-dot button, and select Settings.
4. Tap the Change Date & Time option, then check (or toggle on) "Set time zone automatically."

If you want to ensure your Android smartphone updates the time to match whatever time zone you're in at any given moment, you'll need to instead enable the "Use location to set time zone" feature. If this is enabled, you'll notice your Android phone's clock change to reflect the current time in your new location, such as when you step off the plane in a different time zone and your phone reconnects to a cellular network or WiFi.

If you're experiencing recurring issues with your smartphone showing the wrong time, despite having the automatic time zone feature turned on, there could be a problem that requires some trial and error to fix. For example, it's possible a rogue app is changing the time for some reason, in which case you would need to uninstall it — this is more likely if your phone is rooted, though, as apps typically shouldn't have permission to change the system clock on Android.

If that doesn't seem to be the case, it's also possible there could be an Android bug that was introduced by a recent device update, in which case you'll have to wait for a patch to be released with the fix. There could also be some type of issue originating with your wireless carrier that is causing your phone to change the time, too. For example, your phone may think it's in a different time zone based on a network problem, and so it is doing what it is supposed to do: updating the time to reflect what it thinks is your local clock. Android users have reported this kind of issue going back years, as evidenced by old forum posts.

Unfortunately, if the problem is due to a buggy Android update or an issue with the carrier's network, you're going to have to wait for the fix within a patch or another update. You can try reaching out to your carrier to see if it's a known issue, and, if so, whether there's a troubleshooting method available that could get around the bug until a more permanent fix is introduced. The good news is that many times, users say they can fix a problem by simply restarting their phones.

12 Smart Gadgets You Didn't Know Existed

Your home has a brain. Rather, it has a bunch of tiny brains all disconnected but working together like the tentacles of an octopus made of wooden beams and drywall. We're in the midst of the smart home evolution wherein everything around us collects data on our behavior and listens to our commands — even things which seemingly have no business being smart.

Smart TVs, smartwatches, smart speakers, and smart lightbulbs are all ubiquitous and, at this point, a little passé. These common smart home gadgets are no longer the conversation pieces they once were. Everyone has them. Smart home hubs like Google Home or Amazon Echo even let you link your devices together to create routines that turn on the lights and feed you the news within moments of you waking up or walking through the door.

If you want to recapture the exhilaration of those early smart home days, of having a new gadget to show off and enjoy, you're going to have to get weird with it. Luckily for you, there are some truly weird smart home gadgets out there, just waiting to bring every remaining low-tech element of your life blazing into the future.

If there's anywhere you probably don't want smart tech, it's in your shower. Concerns about the security of smart devices, whether they are warranted or not, reach a new depth when you're at your most vulnerable and without clothes.

The good news is the Kohler Moxie showerhead doesn't feature any cameras, so you're probably alright. Instead, it houses a wireless Bluetooth speaker made by Harman Kardon that pairs with your phone or any other Bluetooth-enabled device to play music, podcasts, or audiobooks straight from your showerhead. The speaker disconnects so you can take it with you wherever else you might need wireless audio and so that you can charge it.

The battery promises 9 hours of playtime, which should get you through quite a few showers, even if they're long ones, and the maximum temperature taps out at 140 degrees Fahrenheit so you can get your showers plenty hot without worrying about the speaker making it through.

The only downside is there's only one shower setting, so you can't change the flow of the water and the speaker takes up a significant portion in the center which would usually be reserved for water flow. Still, if you're the kind of person who needs music in order to really enjoy a shower, this will get the job done. Let's just hope it isn't also listening to us when we sing in the shower.

The piggy bank, every kid's first savings account, dates back centuries to early money banks made of terracotta with a slot in the top, (via BBC). Not much has changed in the intervening centuries, outside of stylizing them to look like pigs. So, it's about time they got the high-tech treatment.

The Porkfolio, from Wink, borrows the aesthetic of the piggy banks you're familiar with while giving it a playful posture and flipping the coin slot onto the pig's stomach. Pairing it with the accompanying Wink app lets the bank track how much money you've put inside it, set financial goals, and build your "porkfolio." It's capable of detecting pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar coins and the nose lights up each time you make a deposit, (via Wink). Unlike the coin banks of old, however, you won't have to smash it open to get your money out.

Best of all, the Porkfolio coin bank has built-in motion sensors which trigger a push notification to your phone or tablet any time it gets moved or flipped over, so you can finally catch your little brother in the act when he tries to steal your change.

As we're all well aware, an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Thanks, Newton! If you're using the alarm clock on your phone, it's all too easy to hit the snooze button or turn your alarm off altogether and stay in bed. If you want to take charge of your morning, you might need to try something different.

There are plenty of smart alarm clocks out there that offer unique ways to start your day. In fact, you could make an argument that your phone or smart home hub is already a smart alarm clock, but the Ruggie alarm clock rug offers something other alarms don't: no snooze button.

Impressive speakers practically shout you awake with 90 to 120 decibels of sound, and they won't stop unless you truly get out of bed. In order to turn off the alarm, you have to swing your legs off your mattress and stand on the rug. Putting your weight on the rug starts a countdown lasting between 3 and 30 seconds. If you step off the rug before then—to get back into bed, for instance—the alarm starts all over again, (via Ruggie).

It isn't all bad, though. You can customize your Ruggie so that once you get out of bed it delivers motivational quotes, affirmations, or just something funny to lighten the mood. That should soften the blow of a rude awakening.

For almost as long as smart tech has been a thing, we've been using it to track our health. Fitbits and smartwatches track our steps, monitor our heart rate, record water consumption, and document our exercise, all to give us useful data about our health and wellbeing. Your Apple Watch can even monitor your environment for potentially dangerous sound levels and warn you when you're at risk of injury.

That's all helpful information but what about the air we breathe? Depending on your location, poor air quality could be one of the largest health risks you face. Turns out, there's a smart gadget for that.

Amazon's smart air quality monitor takes continuous readings of the air in your home and uses a color LED to give you a safety rating at a glance. It looks for carbon monoxide, particulates, and volatile organic compounds and sends notifications to your phone or tablet if the air in your home becomes dangerous, (via PCMag). It also stores that data and provides hourly, weekly, or monthly readouts about your air quality trends over time.

In terms of air quality, the only thing Amazon's smart air quality monitor can't do is act as an air filter, but it can certainly tell you if you need one.

Becoming a master chef takes years of training, practice, and the patience to give your food the care and attention it needs while cooking. If you don't have all of that, Anova's precision cooker can bridge the gap.

Sous vide cooking involves placing food in a vacuum bag and then cooking it to precise temperatures over extended periods of time in a water bath. If you're using a traditional stove with electrical or gas-powered elements, that involves constantly monitoring the temperature with a kitchen thermometer and adjusting the heat on your element to keep the temperature just right. It's a lot of work and you can't step away even for a few moments. Unless you're a professional chef that's probably more than can be asked of the average person. Anova's precision cooker does all the heavy lifting for you.

Using either the buttons on the top of the device or the accompanying app, you can set your temperature and the cooking time. The stainless steel heating element can circulate up to 8 liters of water per minute, maintaining a stable temperature for the duration of your cook time with an accuracy of one-tenth of a degree Celsius, (via Anova).

The app, available on Apple's App Store or the Google Play store, also provides access to a collection of sous vide recipes to make cooking easy even for the uninitiated.

Good quality sleep is critical to good health and the Ghost SmartBed can help you get it. Although, it'll set you back about as much as a used car for the privilege. The Split King mattress normally retails for just shy of twelve thousand dollars.

In exchange for the equivalent of a down payment on a condo, you're getting a pretty sweet mattress. Seven layers, built around the adjustable air chambers let the mattress conform to your needs automatically while having the comfort of memory foam. Each side of your split king has two thousand biometric sensors which pay attention to how you sleep and adjust the pressure as needed, using electrically powered air chambers which open and close depending on your sleep position. (via GhostBed).

Using the GhostBed companion app, you can set your ideal firmness and sensitivity for each side of the bed. It also automatically tracks information about the way you sleep, including restless periods, sleep positions, REM sleep, and breaths per minute to give you a customized sleep score.

The mattress comes in all the standard sizes from a Twin through a California King and the 101-night sleep trial, and a 25-year warranty ensure this is the last mattress you're likely to need for the foreseeable future.

We were wrong before. A shower head isn't the worst thing to grant awareness, however limited. That honor absolutely has to go to the smart toilet. The Numi 2.0 Intelligent Toilet from Kohler allows you to set your preferred seat temperature and dictate the temperature and pressure of your water cleanse and air dry. It's like an automatic car wash for your bottom.

What's more, the Numi 2.0 comes with Amazon Alexa integrated into it, meaning you can control all of your settings with voice commands, (via Kohler). That makes for a convenient bathroom experience, especially when you might want to remain hands-free, but there's something nefarious about calling to your toilet by name in order that it be prepared for your visit to the water closet.

The bathroom customization options don't stop there. Your futuristic smart toilet is also capable of displaying ambient lighting, playing music, and storing distinct profiles for each member of your household, to make your bathroom experience as pleasant as possible, all while looking a little too much like an MSE-6 repair droid.

If that's not smart enough for you, scientists at Stanford are working on a toilet that will analyze your excretions and look for potential disease markers, (via Stanford). Not only can you hold a conversation with your toilet, but it can also make judgments about your health based only on your most shameful moments. Isn't the future grand?

A toothbrush is little more than a bit of plastic or wood with some bristles on the end. You wouldn't think it would need any smarts, but you'd apparently be wrong.

The Colgate hum smart toothbrush uses a Bluetooth connection and an accompanying app to give you insights into your brushing habits so you can keep your teeth as healthy as possible between visits to the dentist. Once you've downloaded the app from either the Apple App Store or the Google Play store, your hum toothbrush it will track how often you brush and for how long, as well as tell you any teeth you aren't brushing well enough, (via Colgate). If you need help or encouragement, the app also offers brushing guides and allows you to earn points toward in-app purchases. Pairing it will Amazon Alexa will also set reminders for when you need to replace your toothbrush head.

If Colgate isn't your brand, other brushes worth considering are Oral-B's slate of smart brushes, which offer similar functions as the hum, or the Quip Smart Electric Toothbrush. In addition to the above-mentioned functions, Quip also allows you to add your child's toothbrush to your app to track their brushing. Consistent brushing also earns points in the app which you can use to redeem free bristle refills and small gift cards.

We've all been there. You're grabbing a quick breakfast as you run out the door, but you overshoot the cook time and now your toast is burnt. What could be worse? A lot of things, sure, but a slice of toast transformed into a charcoal tile is up there. We're centuries removed from heating toast over an open flame, burning your toast should be a thing of the past by this point. Now, with the Revolution InstaGLO R180 Toaster from Revolution Cooking, it can be.

With a few taps of your toaster's touch screen, you can select the type of food you're cooking—the options are bread, English muffin, bagel, waffle, or toaster pastry—the level of toasting you want, and indicate whether your bready breakfast is fresh, frozen, or being reheated.

Instead of simply heating for a predetermined amount of time, the InstaGLO uses an algorithm to adjust the heat based on your selections and reach your optimum level of browning, (via Revolution Cooking). That might seem like a lot for what is, at the end of the day, a piece of overcooked bread, but why do we even have technology if we're not going to use it to make our morning routine more delicious?

The InstaGLO also solves one of the toaster's biggest problems: the crumb tray. Often forgotten in analog toasters, the InstaGLO sounds an alert when the tray needs emptying.

Forks are among the shortlist of the world's perfect inventions. They're lightweight, fit nicely in hand, and they reliably stab food and deliver it to your mouth. How could the possibly be improved? By adding some electronics, of course.

This Bluetooth-connected smart fork from HAPIfork aims to help you build better-eating habits largely by guilting you into eating more slowly. According to HAPIfork, eating too quickly leads to poorer digestion and potential health problems, and they've designed the perfect eating utensil to slow down your snack time.

Their smart fork tracks how quickly you're eating and will tell you when you're hoovering your dinner too quickly with a series of flashing lights and vibrations. The fork also gathers data about your eating habits and sends them to an accompanying app. It's generally considered bad form to have your phone out at the table, but if you do, the app will tell you how long you took to complete a meal, the number of bites or "fork servings" you took, and the amount of time between bites. It also offers a timer to tell you when it's alright to take your next bite.

We're not sure how comfortable we are with a fork which essentially narcs on you about how you eat. There are so few joys in life and optimizing mealtime might be a bridge too far. In the end, you should eat however makes you happy, even if that includes a vibrating fork.

An umbrella is one of those things you almost never need—provided you don't live in a particularly windy locale—but when you do, you're glad to have it. Because they are rarely used, they have a tendency to be forgotten. They don't get the same hallowed positioning in the "phone, keys, wallet" checklist. So, once you take it out, there's a decent chance you'll forget to bring it home, especially if the weather suddenly becomes sunny.

If only your umbrella could alert you when you leave it behind. Well, now it can. The Kisha smart umbrella is a specific product for a specific problem. It knows exactly what it is and nothing more. Billed as "the last umbrella you'll ever need" Kisha syncs to an app on your phone or tablet so that when you inevitably do forget it somewhere, you'll know exactly where to find it. A beacon inside the umbrella communicates with your phone and sends a notification if you travel more than 10 to 20 meters from it, so you'll know you've left it behind before you get too far away. Setting a safe location at your home or office prevents alerts when your umbrella is where it's supposed to be.

In addition to location services, Kisha's accompanying app offers advanced weather forecasts and push notifications to let you know if you're going to need your umbrella on a given day.

The Furbo dog camera is your dog's second-best friend. It's basically an avatar through which you can monitor and interact with your dog when you're not home. Whether you just want to keep an eye on your dog throughout the day or finally figure out how they're getting into the snacks when you're not looking, the Furbo might be the answer.

Strategically positioning the Furbo will give you a second pair of eyes on your pet through its built-in camera. You can use it to watch live videos or set up alerts to notify you of your dog's activity or excessive barking. You set it up so your dog can take selfies.

The onboard speaker lets you talk to your dog and remind them that you love them, even while you can't be together. To really seal the deal, the Furbo is capable of dispensing treats to your dog to give them a little stimulation and a reward for being the best companion you could hope for.

More than just a motion-sensing camera, the Furbo's AI learns your dog's behavior over time so that you won't get erroneous alerts when your dog is just being a dog. If there was ever a reason to add a little smart technology to your home, we can't think of a better reason than making sure your dog is safe and happy.