Wrong time + greyed out time options (Bravia 2015 Android TV)

[andrebrd]

Hi,

I have the KDL-50W755C, Bravia 2015 Android TV. Unfortunately, the time is wrong - its time is 88 minutes in the future. I wanted to change it in the settings, but all options are greyed out. When I go to "Settings" --> "Date & Time" --> "Time", only the option "Use 24-hour format" is available. All other 3 options, one of them "Set time", are greyed out. The time zone is the correct one.

So now the TV is showing a wrong time and is not allowing to change it. What can I do about it?

Thanks for your help!

[nenadx]

The new DVB-T antenna cost 12€ at bol.nl and 6,49€ on amazon.nl

Probably it can be found even cheaper on some actions or 2nd hand sites  😎

[itspvd]

Thanks a lot, do not need to think long for 12euro.
I will report when I have the antenna.

[itspvd]

IT WORKS!! Ordered a DVB_T antenna for 13 Euro (Hama) , set up the channnels (auto search), then afer WiFi on/Off (I do not know if this is really relevant, but it did not function straight away),I got the real time and WiFi+Internet !!

I can now look Youtube again.

GOLDEN TIP

[royabrown2]

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that if you have a TV set to use broadcast time, and you don’t connect it to any broadcasts (by not having a terrestrial aerial, or not having it tuned to any channels) then the time is going to go out of sync.

And that then adding such an aerial and tuning from it will fix this.

So are we saying that everybody in this five-page thread does not have an aerial connected?

And possibly not satellite either, depending on whether this counts as ‘broadcast’, and provides a time signal or not?

So does this mean that the problem drops to one of you not being able to easily switch away from broadcast time sync to network time sync?

Or is it still more complicated than that?

Whatever the residual issues might be, it should not take a rocket scientist at Sony to see that if you don’t have any broadcast connection (and you certainly should not need one just for this if you don’t want one otherwise) then the set should auto switch to using network time.

[royabrown2]

Mods, if you spot this, please delete this unwanted extra posting

[GWBoes]

Same problem here, also with no antenna connected and from the Netherlands (can't be a coincidence at this point).

Tried most solutions apart from the ADB solution. Ordered a dvb-t antenna so hopefully that'll work. 

The weirdest thing is that Netflix just works .

Maybe we said goodbye to lineair television more than other countries.

[royabrown2]

@GWBoes 

Netflix, seemingly alone, doesn’t care if your clock is correct or not.

The puzzle isn’t why Netflix works, but rather why so many other apps are thrown if your clock is out; why do they care, when Netflix doesn’t?

[Win_88]

Hi,

I think it's a security certificate issue. Something similar happens on other devices (try messing up the time on your computer, you'll notice how some browsers will stop working)

If the Network time option sis greyed out, try updating the software or resetting to factory settings.

Win_88

[Remcorj]

Same problem here, also with no antenna connected and from the Netherlands.

[GWBoes]

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@Win_88  schreef:

I think it's a security certificate issue. Something similar happens on other devices (try messing up the time on your computer, you'll notice how some browsers will stop working)

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That I understand, especially as some streaming services have their programs available for a certain timeframe (eg 1 week after original broadcast)

Factory resetting actually worked (also checked for latest update but already had it). But time options are still greyed out.

To control whether the issue is persistent I disconnected the tv from the mains and plugged back in when I got back from work and the time was wrong again, so had to do another factory reset. My antenna is in backorder so I hadn't had the opportunity to test that.

Resetting a tv every time it's disconnected from the mains is hardly normal operation. This needs an update so that syncing time through LAN/wifi instead of broadcast is possible. But since we're just a handful of people in a forumthread, I doubt we'll ever see something happen.

ps: my brother also has the same issue with his Sony tv.