Cannot set time zone automatically windows 10

Hi,

I would like to refer to https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1993746-windows-10-automatic-time-zone-missing . I have the same issue and cannot find a solution. above thread is not solved but locked.

we are currently using the windows 10 1803 build in our AD environment and I am searching for the automatic time zone settings as we have users and sites all over Europe. When I google this, I constantly find people who have a toggle switch in their time settings to switch "Set time zone automatically" on or off. We however do not have this switch. As I understand, our build should be recent enough to have this. I can find the registry setting to switch this on or off, nut I want to show this switch for our users, so I can set a GPO preference to set the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate" "Start" value to 3, but if users connect to VPN and get a different location than where they actually are, they can set this to manual themselves. I cannot seem to find this setting anywhere, or someone else who is having this issue.

Thanks in advance.

kr,

Joris Lembregts

A time zone is a geographical region in which the same time is used. Typically, but not always, adjacent time zones are one hour apart. The time in any of the world's time zones can be expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

You can choose to let Windows 11 set your time zone automatically based on your region, or you can set the time zone manually.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off set time zone automatically for all users in Windows 11.

Contents

• Option One: Turn On or Off Set Time Zone Automatically in Settings
• Option Two: Turn On or Off Set Time Zone Automatically using REG file

Option One

Turn On or Off Set Time Zone Automatically in Settings

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Time & language on the left side, and click/tap on Date & time on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3 Turn On or Off (default) Set time zone automatically on the right side for what you want. (see screenshots below)

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

Option Two

Turn On or Off Set Time Zone Automatically using REG file

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

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​

(Contents of REG file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate]
"Start"=dword:00000003

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​

(Contents of REG file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate]
"Start"=dword:00000004

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.

That's it,
Shawn Brink