G-Shock second timezone question

[samson66]

I'm new to the G-Shock world, but I read the manual and took my time setting it up.

I have my home timezone set to New York and set the time accordingly

However when I turn the second timezone on LAX Los Angeles it reads as four hours behind instead of the correct three hours.

Does anyone know what I may have done wrong that is making it show it as an extra hour behind?

Only thing I can think of is maybe related to DST??? I have that set as "on" since we do have daylight savings time here.

Thanks for the help

[scarlet knight]

I cannot get the correct time in Tokyo on mine. I am in the NYC zone.

[samson66]

Originally Posted by scarlet knight

I cannot get the correct time in Tokyo on mine. I am in the NYC zone.

Can you set your second to LAX and see what time you're reading?

[scarlet knight]

Originally Posted by samson66

Can you set your second to LAX and see what time you're reading?

Just not Tokyo. Mine is not one of the watches that have atomic time coordination.

Can you manually change the time in the LA time zone?

[samson66]

Originally Posted by scarlet knight

Just not Tokyo. Mine is not one of the watches that have atomic time coordination.

Can you manually change the time in the LA time zone?

I don't think I can. You set the home time by time off UTC if I remember right. I think the DST is the problem but I can't figure out how to fix it. Basically it looks like it is applying daylight savings time to my home time zone but not applying it to and of the second time zones. I need it to apply to LAX

[samson66]

Originally Posted by scarlet knight

Just not Tokyo. Mine is not one of the watches that have atomic time coordination.

Can you manually change the time in the LA time zone?

Found the answer. I cannot manually adjust the secondary time zones, HOWEVER I can turn the DST on and off the secondary time zones. I switched to LAX time, held down the "adjust" button for a few seconds, and it turns on the DST. You need to do this manually for any second time zone. I guess when we go back to standard time I will need to do the same procedure again to turn it off.

A bit of a PITA but at least I know how to do it now.

[scarlet knight]

Congrats for cracking the code. I will see if I can apply it on mine.

[samson66]

Originally Posted by scarlet knight

Congrats for cracking the code. I will see if I can apply it on mine.

I have the manual right in front of me and I swear I don't see anything about it on there. Found the answer on another forum.

I still think the simplest approach would have been to automatically apply DST to all time zones that utilize it. Not sure why its something we need to turn on and off.

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[rootbeer7]

You can only imagine the hours I put into making the tide flow chart accurate. (I still can’t get it right).

[uscmatt99]

The struggle is real! I've had my G-shock for a few years but haven't worn it for the last year as I just couldn't quite figure out the DST in second time zone issue either. May have to give it another go, you're an inspiration

[samson66]

Originally Posted by uscmatt99

The struggle is real! I've had my G-shock for a few years but haven't worn it for the last year as I just couldn't quite figure out the DST in second time zone issue either. May have to give it another go, you're an inspiration

I can definitely walk you through it but you will owe me a beer