How to make sure your mobile changes the time automatically: a step-by-step guide.

For years, changing the time has not consisted of picking up or picking up all the watches you have at home and moving the hands. We are surrounded by smart devices and we usually trust them to change the time automatically without us having to do anything. But you should check it and in these paragraphs we will explain how to be sure that my watches and devices have changed the time and how to change it if it has not.

With a smart phone or watch you usually don’t have to worry. Even if you set the alarm clock, it will adapt and ring at the “new time” when you go to get up. But it is advisable that we do not trust ourselves and review the settings to find out if it is going to be modified automatically or if we should.

When and why is the time changed?

Every year we change the time on our clocks twice. We have always done it on every clock we had at home, modifying it manually. The idea of the time change is to take more advantage of the hours of natural light in order to save energy and money by adapting to the changes that occur throughout the year.

The time is changed at dawn from Saturday 25 to Sunday 26 March 2023. At that time, in Spain the clock will go from 02:00 a.m. to 03:00 a.m. according to peninsular time. But also from Saturday to Sunday in March it will go from 01:00 a.m. to 02:00 a.m. if you live in the Canary Islands. As you have heard many times: two will be three. Or an hour less in the Canary Islands.

Although we are used to it being like this, this may change. According to the calendar published in the BOE by the Ministry of the Presidency, it is intended that the time change be set until October 25, 2026 but that it may come to an end later. A fact that all the countries of the European Union would still have to agree on and that still has to be decided. At the moment, we change the time twice a year and come spring all our clocks go forward one hour.

Check if the time change will be made

If you want to check on all your devices that the time change is going to take place, there are a series of steps that we must follow to find out if it is correctly configured or not.

On Android mobile

If you have an Android mobile phone, the steps that we must follow will take us to the settings to check if we have correctly configured the summer time.

Open the settings of your Android mobile phone
Look for the “General” or “System Settings” section
Once here, look for the “Date and time” section
tap on her

You will see a number of options. Look for the “Set time automatically” button and make sure the switch is checked so that it is modified when necessary. In addition, it is advisable that you note that the switch is also activated in the “Set time zone automatically” function so that the time zone that your mobile phone has configured matches the one you are in.

While these are the usual steps to make sure it’s turned on automatically, there may be slight changes to the steps you can or should follow. Each Android has a different customization layer and this means that it can vary from one to another depending on the exact model you have or the brand of it.

On an iOS phone

If you have an iOS mobile phone, the steps we must follow to check the time are also very simple and we will do it from the device settings.

Open the settings of our iPhone
Go to the “General” section
Once here, look for the “date and time” section

When we have reached this section, look for “Automatic adjustment” and we must verify that the option is activated so that, when the time comes, the time coincides with what we should have on Sunday morning.

Also, as in the case of Android, we must make sure that the time zone that we have configured corresponds to the time zone in which we are.

on a smart watch

In the smart watch it will depend on the brand and model that we must follow some steps or others to modify the date and time and to make sure that it is changed automatically. But generally it will be enough to connect to the phone, which will have already modified its time if you have followed the previous steps, and it will be linked and updated automatically. Or, in most watches, it will suffice to activate the GPS function for the device to track our location and automatically set the date and time without having to do anything else.

If not, the steps will depend on each smartwatch model and it is recommended that you look for the exact steps of each brand through the instruction manual. Search the Internet for the model and download the manual to find out what to do.

In the computer

On your Windows computer you can also set the date and time automatically from settings so you don’t have to change it.

We go to the Windows Start menu
We open the computer configuration section
We choose the “time and language ” section, as in the screenshot

Once here, we check if the “set the time automatically” button is activated. If so, at the top of the configuration menu screen you will see the time you were checking it and the exact date.

How to change the time manually

If you do not trust the automatic adjustment, you can manually set the time on your mobile phone from the settings of the mobile phone and it will take us a few seconds. Although you should configure it automatically to avoid problems, you can also do it by following this method if you like it or are more convinced.

on android

The steps that we must follow in Android to adjust the time are:

Open the settings of your mobile phone
Go to the “system settings” section
Look for the date and time section

Once here, with the “set time automatically” button unchecked, we can choose the date and time. Tap on “date” and a sliding menu will open where you can choose the day, month and year. As for the time, the same thing will happen. You will see a menu with the hours and minutes and you just have to choose the one that corresponds.

As in the previous case, it will vary depending on the customization layer of your mobile phone or tablet, even if they all have Android as their operating system.

on iOS

If the automatic adjustment does not work or you simply want to change the time manually in iOS, we must follow the same steps as in the previous case but access the date and time settings and manually choose the data…

We open the General section of the iPhone in settings
We touch on “Date and time”
We will see that the “automatic adjustment” is unchecked
You will have to choose your time zone (where you see “Madrid” in the example)
Choose the date on the calendar, as in the screenshot
Choose the time it is at the time of setting

Once you have it ready, all that remains is to save.

on Windows

If you want to adjust the date and time manually in Windows, you can also do it from settings, in the same window where we check whether or not this option is automatically activated. The steps are very simple.