Time zone keeps defaulting incorrectly after upgrade.. Why?!

[Lundon44]

So I discovered that the reason my linked accounts (MS, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) were stuck in constant sync, causing severe battery drain were due to my time zone being incorrect. I have always had the date and time set to automatic. I live in Toronto, Canada by the way where our time zone here is Eastern Standard.

When I disabled the automatic time it showed that my 1520 had defaulted to the Cuiaba time zone. Which after a quick Googling I found out is in Brazil. Interesting..

So if I flip the switch back to automatic I'm back on the Cuiaba time zone again. I have to keep it on manual now. And after a soft reset last night my date and time were completely wrong so I had to manually reset my date again.

This is slightly annoying and I can't figure out why the phone thinks I'm in Brazil. Any ideas anyone? Not to keen on having to manually adjust my date and time after every soft reset.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Do you have location services on?

 

[Lundon44]

Do you have location services on?

I turned it on with no change. And turned it off still the same. Doesn't seem to make a difference.

 

[grizzlyaddams]

I am in NY, where the timezone is also Eastern Standard. But Windows Phone is choosing the same timezone for me as for you; Cuiaba. I also have location services on. The time itself is correct however so I really haven't bothered to change it. Maybe it has to do with daylight savings time or perhaps they are only checking the lattitude?

 

[sarim_xyz]

I have the same issue, I am in EST (EDT nowadays), but it automatically selects Cuiaba, though the time is correct. I think the problem lies due to the fact that we are observing daylight savings and that's why it goes to UTC -04:00 instead of UTC -05:00. Microsoft should correct this. Don't know if the same is happening with the phones that have WP8.1 preinstalled (I guess, they are not in EST anyway).

For the time being I disabled the auto update and selected the EST manually.

 

[BaritoneGuy]

I am also in Toronto with the 1520.3 phone. Mine is fine. I am on Bell and everything is set to automatic. I wonder if this might have something to do with your carrier. For the 2 users with the issues which carrier are you on?

 

[CowardlyLions]

I'm in Virginia with an 8xt and have the same issue. The phone will actually have the correct time displayed, but still thinks I'm in Cuba, or wherever.