Windows 10: Change Time Zone in Windows 10

hTconeM9user · Apr 9, 2016

How to: Change Time Zone in Windows 10

How to Change the Time Zone in Windows 10

Your PC's clock is used to record the time whenever you create or modify files on your PC. You can change the clock's time and time zone.

A time zone is a region that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time.

See also: Daylight saving time help and support | Windows Support

This tutorial will show you different ways on how to change the time zone on the PC for all users in Windows 10.

*Warning If your time zone observes daylight saving time and you want your PC's clock to be adjusted automatically when daylight saving time changes, make sure to turn on automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time.

CONTENTS:

Option One: To Change Time Zone in Settings

Option Two: To Change Time Zone in Control Panel

Option Three: To Turn On or Off Set Time Zone Automatically using a REG file

Option Four: To Change Time Zone in Registry Editor

Option Five: To Change Time Zone in Command Prompt

Option Six: To Change Time Zone in PowerShell

OPTION ONE [/i] To Change Time Zone in Settings
*note You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.
1. Open the Settings app, and click/tap on the Time & Language icon.

2. Click/tap on Date & Time on the left side, and turn off Set time zone automatically on the right side. (see screenshot below step 3)

3. Select the time zone you want to use in the drop down menu on the right side, and turn on (default) or off to Adjust for daylight saving time automatically. (see screenshot below)

4. If you like, turn on Set time zone automatically on the right side. (see screenshot below)

5. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.

OPTION TWO [/i] To Change Time Zone in Control Panel
1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Date and Time icon.

2. Click/tap on the Change time zone button under the Time zone section. (see screenshot below)

3. Select the time zone you want to use in the drop down menu, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

4. Click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below step 2)

OPTION THREE [/i] To Turn On or Off Set Time Zone Automatically using a REG file

*note You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate

Start DWORD

3 = On
4 = Off

1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.

2. To Turn On Set Time Zone Automatically
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_ON_Set_time_zone_automatically.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off Set Time Zone Automatically
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_OFF_Set_time_zone_automatically.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

OPTION FOUR [/i] To Change Time Zone in Registry Editor
1. Turn off Set time zone automatically using Option One or Option Three.

2. Type regedit in the search box (Windows+S) on Start or taskbar, and press Enter to open Registry Editor.

3. If prompted by UAC, click/tap on Yes.

4. In Registry Editor, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation

5. In the right pane of the TimeZoneInformation key, double click/tap on the TimeZoneKeyName string value to modify it. (see screenshot above)

6. Copy and paste the time zone you want to use from the Time zone value data list below, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

*Arrow Time zone value data list:

Code:

Afghanistan Standard Time
Alaskan Standard Time
Arab Standard Time
Arabian Standard Time
Arabic Standard Time
Argentina Standard Time
Atlantic Standard Time
AUS Central Standard Time
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Azerbaijan Standard Time
Azores Standard Time
Bahia Standard Time
Bangladesh Standard Time
Belarus Standard Time
Canada Central Standard Time
Cape Verde Standard Time
Caucasus Standard Time
Central America Standard Time
Cen. Australia Standard Time
Central Asia Standard Time
Central Brazilian Standard Time
Central Europe Standard Time
Central European Standard Time
Central Pacific Standard Time
Central Standard Time
Central Standard Time (Mexico)
China Standard Time
Dateline Standard Time
E. Africa Standard Time
E. Australia Standard Time
E. Europe Standard Time
E. South America Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
Egypt Standard Time
Ekaterinburg Standard Time
Fiji Standard Time
FLE Standard Time
Georgian Standard Time
GMT Standard Time
Greenland Standard Time
Greenwich Standard Time
GTB Standard Time
Hawaiian Standard Time
India Standard Time
Iran Standard Time
Israel Standard Time
Jordan Standard Time
Kaliningrad Standard Time
Korea Standard Time
Libya Standard Time
Line Islands Standard Time
Magadan Standard Time
Mauritius Standard Time
Middle East Standard Time
Montevideo Standard Time
Morocco Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
Myanmar Standard Time
Namibia Standard Time
Nepal Standard Time
New Zealand Standard Time
Newfoundland Standard Time
North Asia East Standard Time
North Asia Standard Time
N. Central Asia Standard Time
Pacific SA Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
Pakistan Standard Time
Paraguay Standard Time
Romance Standard Time
Russia Time Zone 3
Russia Time Zone 10
Russia Time Zone 11
Russian Standard Time
Samoa Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time
SA Eastern Standard Time
SA Pacific Standard Time
SA Western Standard Time
SE Asia Standard Time
Singapore Standard Time
Sri Lanka Standard Time
Syria Standard Time
Taipei Standard Time
Tasmania Standard Time
Tokyo Standard Time
Tonga Standard Time
Turkey Standard Time
US Eastern Standard Time
US Mountain Standard Time
UTC
UTC-02
UTC-11
UTC+12
Venezuela Standard Time
Vladivostok Standard Time
West Asia Standard Time
W. Australia Standard Time
W. Central Africa Standard Time
W. Europe Standard Time
West Pacific Standard Time
Yakutsk Standard Time
Click to expand...

7. Close Registry Editor.

8. Restart the computer to apply.

OPTION FIVE [/i] To Change Time Zone in Command Prompt
1. Turn off Set time zone automatically using Option One or Option Three.

2. Open a command prompt.

3. Do step 4 (see current), step 5 (set with DST on), step 6 (set with DST off) below for what you want to do.

4. To See Current Time Zone
A) Type the command below into the command prompt, press Enter, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*Arrow tzutil /G

5. To Set Time Zone and Turn On Daylight Savings Time (DST)
A) Type the command below into the command prompt, press Enter, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*Arrow tzutil /s "time zone name"

Note Substitute time zone name in the command above with the time zone name you want to set below.

For example: tzutil /s "Central Standard Time"

Code:

Afghanistan Standard Time
Alaskan Standard Time
Arab Standard Time
Arabian Standard Time
Arabic Standard Time
Argentina Standard Time
Atlantic Standard Time
AUS Central Standard Time
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Azerbaijan Standard Time
Azores Standard Time
Bahia Standard Time
Bangladesh Standard Time
Belarus Standard Time
Canada Central Standard Time
Cape Verde Standard Time
Caucasus Standard Time
Central America Standard Time
Cen. Australia Standard Time
Central Asia Standard Time
Central Brazilian Standard Time
Central Europe Standard Time
Central European Standard Time
Central Pacific Standard Time
Central Standard Time
Central Standard Time (Mexico)
China Standard Time
Dateline Standard Time
E. Africa Standard Time
E. Australia Standard Time
E. Europe Standard Time
E. South America Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
Egypt Standard Time
Ekaterinburg Standard Time
Fiji Standard Time
FLE Standard Time
Georgian Standard Time
GMT Standard Time
Greenland Standard Time
Greenwich Standard Time
GTB Standard Time
Hawaiian Standard Time
India Standard Time
Iran Standard Time
Israel Standard Time
Jordan Standard Time
Kaliningrad Standard Time
Korea Standard Time
Libya Standard Time
Line Islands Standard Time
Magadan Standard Time
Mauritius Standard Time
Middle East Standard Time
Montevideo Standard Time
Morocco Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
Myanmar Standard Time
Namibia Standard Time
Nepal Standard Time
New Zealand Standard Time
Newfoundland Standard Time
North Asia East Standard Time
North Asia Standard Time
N. Central Asia Standard Time
Pacific SA Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
Pakistan Standard Time
Paraguay Standard Time
Romance Standard Time
Russia Time Zone 3
Russia Time Zone 10
Russia Time Zone 11
Russian Standard Time
Samoa Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time
SA Eastern Standard Time
SA Pacific Standard Time
SA Western Standard Time
SE Asia Standard Time
Singapore Standard Time
Sri Lanka Standard Time
Syria Standard Time
Taipei Standard Time
Tasmania Standard Time
Tokyo Standard Time
Tonga Standard Time
Turkey Standard Time
US Eastern Standard Time
US Mountain Standard Time
UTC
UTC-02
UTC-11
UTC+12
Venezuela Standard Time
Vladivostok Standard Time
West Asia Standard Time
W. Australia Standard Time
W. Central Africa Standard Time
W. Europe Standard Time
West Pacific Standard Time
Yakutsk Standard Time
Click to expand...

6. To Set Time Zone and Turn Off Daylight Savings Time (DST)
A) Type the command below into the command prompt, press Enter, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*Arrow tzutil /s "time zone name_dstoff"

Note Substitute time zone name in the command above with the time zone name you want to set below.

For example: tzutil /s "Central Standard Time_dstoff"

Code:

Afghanistan Standard Time
Alaskan Standard Time
Arab Standard Time
Arabian Standard Time
Arabic Standard Time
Argentina Standard Time
Atlantic Standard Time
AUS Central Standard Time
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Azerbaijan Standard Time
Azores Standard Time
Bahia Standard Time
Bangladesh Standard Time
Belarus Standard Time
Canada Central Standard Time
Cape Verde Standard Time
Caucasus Standard Time
Central America Standard Time
Cen. Australia Standard Time
Central Asia Standard Time
Central Brazilian Standard Time
Central Europe Standard Time
Central European Standard Time
Central Pacific Standard Time
Central Standard Time
Central Standard Time (Mexico)
China Standard Time
Dateline Standard Time
E. Africa Standard Time
E. Australia Standard Time
E. Europe Standard Time
E. South America Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
Egypt Standard Time
Ekaterinburg Standard Time
Fiji Standard Time
FLE Standard Time
Georgian Standard Time
GMT Standard Time
Greenland Standard Time
Greenwich Standard Time
GTB Standard Time
Hawaiian Standard Time
India Standard Time
Iran Standard Time
Israel Standard Time
Jordan Standard Time
Kaliningrad Standard Time
Korea Standard Time
Libya Standard Time
Line Islands Standard Time
Magadan Standard Time
Mauritius Standard Time
Middle East Standard Time
Montevideo Standard Time
Morocco Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
Myanmar Standard Time
Namibia Standard Time
Nepal Standard Time
New Zealand Standard Time
Newfoundland Standard Time
North Asia East Standard Time
North Asia Standard Time
N. Central Asia Standard Time
Pacific SA Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
Pakistan Standard Time
Paraguay Standard Time
Romance Standard Time
Russia Time Zone 3
Russia Time Zone 10
Russia Time Zone 11
Russian Standard Time
Samoa Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time
SA Eastern Standard Time
SA Pacific Standard Time
SA Western Standard Time
SE Asia Standard Time
Singapore Standard Time
Sri Lanka Standard Time
Syria Standard Time
Taipei Standard Time
Tasmania Standard Time
Tokyo Standard Time
Tonga Standard Time
Turkey Standard Time
US Eastern Standard Time
US Mountain Standard Time
UTC
UTC-02
UTC-11
UTC+12
Venezuela Standard Time
Vladivostok Standard Time
West Asia Standard Time
W. Australia Standard Time
W. Central Africa Standard Time
W. Europe Standard Time
West Pacific Standard Time
Yakutsk Standard Time
Click to expand...

7. When finished, you can now close the command prompt if you like.

OPTION SIX [/i] To Change Time Zone in PowerShell
*note To see more usage options for the Get-TimeZone command, see: Get-TimeZone - Microsoft Developer Network

To see more usage options for the Set-TimeZone command, see: Set-TimeZone - Microsoft Developer Network
1. Turn off Set time zone automatically using Option One or Option Three.

2. Open PowerShell.

3. Do step 4 (see current) or step 5 (change) below for what you want to do.

4. To See Current Time Zone
A) Copy and paste the command below into PowerShell, press Enter, and go to step 6 below. (see screenshot below)

*Arrow Get-TimeZone

5. To Change Time Zone
A) Type the command below into PowerShell, press Enter, and go to step 6 below. (see screenshot below)

*Arrow Set-TimeZone -Name "time zone name"

Note Substitute time zone name in the command above with the time zone name you want to set below.

For example: Set-TimeZone -Name "Central Standard Time"

Code:

Afghanistan Standard Time
Alaskan Standard Time
Arab Standard Time
Arabian Standard Time
Arabic Standard Time
Argentina Standard Time
Atlantic Standard Time
AUS Central Standard Time
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Azerbaijan Standard Time
Azores Standard Time
Bahia Standard Time
Bangladesh Standard Time
Belarus Standard Time
Canada Central Standard Time
Cape Verde Standard Time
Caucasus Standard Time
Central America Standard Time
Cen. Australia Standard Time
Central Asia Standard Time
Central Brazilian Standard Time
Central Europe Standard Time
Central European Standard Time
Central Pacific Standard Time
Central Standard Time
Central Standard Time (Mexico)
China Standard Time
Dateline Standard Time
E. Africa Standard Time
E. Australia Standard Time
E. Europe Standard Time
E. South America Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
Egypt Standard Time
Ekaterinburg Standard Time
Fiji Standard Time
FLE Standard Time
Georgian Standard Time
GMT Standard Time
Greenland Standard Time
Greenwich Standard Time
GTB Standard Time
Hawaiian Standard Time
India Standard Time
Iran Standard Time
Israel Standard Time
Jordan Standard Time
Kaliningrad Standard Time
Korea Standard Time
Libya Standard Time
Line Islands Standard Time
Magadan Standard Time
Mauritius Standard Time
Middle East Standard Time
Montevideo Standard Time
Morocco Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
Myanmar Standard Time
Namibia Standard Time
Nepal Standard Time
New Zealand Standard Time
Newfoundland Standard Time
North Asia East Standard Time
North Asia Standard Time
N. Central Asia Standard Time
Pacific SA Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
Pakistan Standard Time
Paraguay Standard Time
Romance Standard Time
Russia Time Zone 3
Russia Time Zone 10
Russia Time Zone 11
Russian Standard Time
Samoa Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time
SA Eastern Standard Time
SA Pacific Standard Time
SA Western Standard Time
SE Asia Standard Time
Singapore Standard Time
Sri Lanka Standard Time
Syria Standard Time
Taipei Standard Time
Tasmania Standard Time
Tokyo Standard Time
Tonga Standard Time
Turkey Standard Time
US Eastern Standard Time
US Mountain Standard Time
UTC
UTC-02
UTC-11
UTC+12
Venezuela Standard Time
Vladivostok Standard Time
West Asia Standard Time
W. Australia Standard Time
W. Central Africa Standard Time
W. Europe Standard Time
West Pacific Standard Time
Yakutsk Standard Time
Click to expand...

6. When finished, you can now close PowerShell if you like.

That's it,
Shawn

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win10freak · Oct 26, 2019

Windows 10 Time Zone tool?

Tested this once again and did exactly what the steps from above. After booting into Windows it did change to UTC from the list of time zones from the date and time properties.

The actual time however was still Pacific Time. But when I connected to the internet now the clock shows UTC.

I did a command SYSTEMINFO and under Original Install Date it still has the Pacific Time.

So yes, I can confirm that to show the exact correct time you need to connect to the internet or else it will not work. The only changes that do work when not connected is that the correct Time Zone setting (UTC) appeared on the date/time properties after doing the TZUTIL command during install. But the actual time was still reflected on Pacific Time.

Tech Guy Guide · Oct 26, 2019

How to Change the Time Zone in Windows 10

PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE STEP BY STEP GUIDE:

Change Time Zone in Windows 10

B. Parker · Oct 26, 2019

Time Zones do not change

Hi Andre,

Thanks for taking the time to help. I appreciate it.

I opened the account on my computer which has Administrator Privileges and ran regedit.

In the first string you suggested, it was already set to NTP.

In the second string, I changed the value to 3, as instructed.

Regrettably, after the restart - the trouble is still present. The Time Zone is still stuck on the time zone of the place I started my trip from.

I opened Settings>Time and confirmed that the toggle is set to Automatically Detect/Change the Time Zone, but it clearly isn't working. Additionally, the place where it displays the Time Zone (which if you click on usually drops down a list where you can
select a new TZ) is grayed out and not longer drops down a list if you click upon it.

Also grayed out is the toggle allowing you to choose to ignore Daylight Savings.

Hmmm. Puzzling.

helpancient · Oct 26, 2019

Time Zone Change

I moved states recently and went to change my time zone, only to discover my new time zone (Sydney) wasn't on the list.

How do I get the new time zone added. I would have thought all the major cities would have been there automatically.

Mohammed AliAli · Oct 26, 2019

Time Zones

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty with the problem, it would be helpful if you could reply to these questions to assist you further.

What is the make and model of your computer?

Since when are you facing this issue?

Time Zone will not change automatically while you travel. If you want to change the Time Zone for your computer, you will have to change manually.

Only the live tiles like Weather, News, and Sports have the ability to change with the location.

Go to control panel.

Click on "Clock, Language, and Region

Under "Date and Time", click on "Change the Time Zone"

Under "Time Zone" click on "Change time zone

Under "Time Zone, click the current time zone, and select your actual time zone

Click OK and you are done.

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

Thank you.

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