Allow to adjust time/timezone without having to factory reset
Currently, when the Oculus Quest system clock is false (maybe it identified the wrong timezone at initial setup; the phone had a wrong clock at setup, you changed your location where there is a different local time, and probably when daylight savings time changes (to be seen)), there is no way other then a factory reset to get the system clock of the quest right again. At factory reset the phone time gets synced with the Quest apparently.
Either add a setting within the Oculus Quest home environment, to change and set the current timezone and sync the time with the network or a online time server; or add an option in the Oculus Companion App to resync the current time with the Quest.
Neo Navras
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Felipe Fabrette
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This is how I fixed it - I used my phone as a Wi-Fi by share a mobile connection by hotspot or tethering whatever, I started the Quest 2, connected to my phone, opened the Oculus app on my phone, connected to the Quest 2 - go to more options, change language, change the language to whatever, it will ask you to restart quest, you do that and TADAAA! It's fixed! Well, it worked for me and I hope it helps other desperate people like myself who could not find an answer to this anywhere for Oculus Quest 2.
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Jason Rhune
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I agree..This is such an easy thing to add into options. Everything has the option to change date and time..Or at least auto calibrate with the internet..
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Neva
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For some reason I'm on lord howe Island time and can't change it. Very annoying. Please please fix
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vermeer grange
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Just moved in another country, working daily in VR, so annoyed by this, no way I factory reset for just this stupid reason. Come on Oculus!
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sean
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this surely is a basic fix? come on oculus!
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Gary Farrell
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There is a simple fix - simply enable syncing time settings with a ntp server (like virtually every other device that has internet access!)
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Edg
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The time shown on my quest has been incorrect since day one. For some reason it shows the correct time if I were in Iceland. Correcting this should be a simple case of going into something in settings. I am not about to do a factory reset and lose all game stats.
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Duane Aakre
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The time in my Quest was originally correct. I had to do a factory reset and after that it was off by five hours. So a factory reset caused my problem, not solved it.
It is very annoying and you need to give the user a way to adjust the time.
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Aud
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Why do people do such dumb things as to lock the time? Like, nobody ever travels? Duh!
Factory reset to update time? I hope that ends up on all of their phones! -
Neo Navras
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I posted this feedback link also on r/OculusQuest: https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/c8o35g/allow_us_to_adjust_timetimezone_without_having_to/
As someone said, it doesn't need to be a setting, as the Quest could/should also just pick up the time from the network.
I can confirm that the Quest currently doesn't seem to sync the time with the network. I noticed my time was wrong yesterday, and today the time was still wrong - before I indeed factory reset it to get it right again.