set winter time automatically or manually on android
The clocks will be set back next night. With the winter time, it goes back one hour. The clock must also be reset to winter time on your Android smartphone. This usually happens automatically, but this is not the case in all cases. We help you automatically and manually set the time on your smartphone.
Winter time on Android
Next night the clocks will be set back one hour, or winter time will start. Now you are probably wondering; ‘does my smartphone automatically switch to winter time?’. The answer to this question is in many cases ‘yes’. In most cases, your phone will automatically adjust the time because it receives the settings from the network. To check this, we give you a tip on how you can set this up and check it.
adjust time
Go to Settings > Date and time and check whether ‘Automatic date and time’ is set there. It is also better to enable ‘Automatic time zone’ so that the network passes on the correct time zone to your phone.
If so, the phone will automatically set the clock to daylight saving time or winter time. If this is not checked, there is a good chance that you will have to manually adjust the clock. The fields under this option then change from a gray to a black color and you can adjust the time yourself.
Check winter time
You can easily check whether the phone automatically switches to the new time. By setting an alarm for tomorrow morning, you will see a notification about how many hours and minutes the alarm goes off. On the basis of this you can calculate whether the time indicated by the telephone is correct, if the clock goes back one hour.
Adjusting the time is therefore not very difficult. Also, don’t forget to set your other devices back an hour; such as your digital camera and of course the clocks on the wall.
Daylight saving time will be active again on the night of Saturday March 26 to Sunday March 27, 2022.
- Winter time 2020: October 25
- Winter time 2021: October 31
- Winter time 2022: October 30
- Winter time 2023: October 29
- Winter time 2024: October 27
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