Time zone keeps changing wildly Or at least I think that's the problem. For weeks now the time on my Pixel has been popping all over the place, without me intervening, always off by exactly one or more hours in either direction. For long stretches the time will be correct, but then it'll start jumping around.

Moments ago my phone said 11:07am. Now it's the correct time, 3:07pm. I few minutes prior to that it was 5pm-something. Interestingly, I was trying to use the Google Authenticator app, which doesn't seem to work when the time is incorrect. Without me doing anything, it finally figured out the correct time and the Authenticator app worked.

Additionally, yesterday the time was incorrect when I launched Waze and set a route. After my drive started the time randomly fixed itself, but Waze got confused and my 'time to destination' didn't budge, although the route map continued to update. Crazy, and Waze should use their server clock over the device clock anyway.

Under Date &amp; time I, naturally, have Automatic time zone enabled, as well as Automatic date &amp; time. I suppose I could disable Automatic time zone, but that's a somewhat-annoying work-around, not a fix.

Has anyone see this before? Any suggestions as to what might be the problem?

Note: I'm running Android v9. I cannot remember exactly when I upgraded and have no idea if that coincides with the timing of this problem.

Update: I disabled "Automatic time zone," leaving "Automatic date &amp; time" enabled, and the issued reoccurred, so it's not that. I suppose I could disable them both, but that seems like it would be a hassle.
Just did a quick search on the Issue Tracker - you might want to follow these threads and/or contribute a bug report for them:


https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/120241605 Android Pie - Clock shows wrong time (intermittent)
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/119663595  Automatic Time Zone Selection is wrong Android 9 Pie (has been closed because could not be replicated apparently)


Unfortunately yes you'll have to disable auto time zone for now.