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My Garmin Forerunner 630 now shows the time 8 hours and 11 minutes behind the correct time. That could be the time the battery was flat. I then had real difficulty pairing with my iPhone but it’s now paired. I have done soft and hard resets of the watch and removed and reinstalled Garmin Connect. I’ve changed time zones on my iPhone. That changed the time on my watch but it’s always out 8 hours and 11 minutes. I’ve manually changed the time on my iPhone but that had now effect on the watch. I’ve done multiple data transfers with Garmin Connect but that didn’t help. Any thoughts? Update (04/29/2016) Found how to reset time under settings and clock on the watch. Obvious, really Update (04/29/2016) Actually, it’s not fixed. The question remains. I can manually set the time, but if I set it to automatic it shows the wrong time. Any thoughts on fixing the automatic feature?

Hi, Have you checked that the GPS setting is activated? When the time setting is on Automatic the watch derives the time and date based on the GPS position signals it receives from the satellites. If you have got the GPS enabled and the time is wrong try the suggestions in the troubleshooting section on p.14 of the user guide regarding Improving GPS Satellite Reception and Acquiring Satellite Signals and see if this solves your problem. Here is a link to the User Guide. http://static.garmin.com/pumac/Forerunne… If that doesn’t work check to see if there are any software updates available or perhaps you can try reinstalling the software version that you are using now, in case it has been corrupted. Here is a link describing the procedure. See the Note regarding using Garmin Express http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_…

I was experiencing the same issue but after reading a troubleshooting post I was tried all those method on my Forerunner watch and now it is showing the accurately correct time. You can try these method they will help you as well.

I got the same problem today, watch showed wrong day and time. I went out and turned on the activity mode, waited till GPS is available (green bar). Afterwards, the time finally shows correctly, only the steps is not synced, it was reset and shows a different value as garmin connect.

i not sure i found the fix. This happened to me when i downloaded and used other watch face (ActiFace by Petr.koula)

  1. connect my garmin forerunner 735 with USB to my laptop.
  2. Manage App
  3. choose the watch face, it should have a setting button
  4. Edit the timezone to the correct time zone

had this issue. Went in and manually set the time usiing the process above. Then I turned on GPS and set my location for one of my apps. Then I turned the auto Time format back on. And it seems to be corrected now.

I had the same problem when the watch battery died. This was my solution- not sure it’s the most efficient. First, go to settings. Second, select sensors and finally select compass. The watch will then instruct you to calibrate (move watch in a figure 8). Good luck

this morning the clock on my forerunner 230 was 17 minutes ahead but also showing the day before’s activity level. Even when I changed the settings for the clock to a manually set time, it was stuck on the day before’s activity as current day activity. For me the solution was a quick drive in the car, where I timed the drive as a run, a new GPS signal was acquired and the clock set correctly and the activity level from the day before was gone, so device advanced to “today”

Restored defaults on the watch. Removed the device from my phones Bluetooth list. Repaired the watch with my phone. In the all settings set location services on to always. Problem solved