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This is an old article since iOS has added UTC time zone to system settings and clock app. Android still doesn’t support UTC time zone, and need to use Iceland

This is an old article since iOS has added UTC time zone to system settings and clock app. Android still doesn’t support UTC time zone, and need to use Iceland as hack. Which depends on Iceland not changing their time zone.

syrkis 9y ago
Had anyone here tried to live life with their iPhone on UTC?
- yusyusyus 9y ago
  yes. it makes reading logs easier.
- __s 9y ago
  I don't have a phone, boss wants me to get one, & I'll be setting it to UTC if I end up with one I've had my own devices set to UTC for the past few years. It made sense for coordinating when my friends are in whichever places of time, especially for online PvP gaming. It worked well when I was working remotely
- jsmthrowaway 9y ago
  UTC as a world clock is a happy medium, and works well. You get it in the notifications tray.
tzs 9y ago
There are probably better choices than Iceland, if Android supports them. Iceland doesn't do DST now, but has in the past (1917-1918, and 1939-1968). The farther North a place is, the stronger the case for DST, so I wouldn't count on Iceland changing not their mind someday. I'd pick someplace reasonably close to the equator. Then there is little difference in sunrise and sunset times throughout the year, and there is pretty much no case to be made for DST on sunlight grounds. Some good choices, if whatever you are trying to set supports any of them: • Liberia. City of Monrovia if you have to specify by city. There's only 0:43 difference between the longest and shortest daylight periods of the year there. • Guinea, city of Conakry. • Togo, city of Lomé. There are a few other countries in the general area of these three that are on UTC+0 but these three have never had DST so are probably more likely to stay that way.
- seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  > The farther North a place is, the stronger the case for DST I disagree. If you get to the north pole or anywhere near the Arctic Circle (where Iceland is), it can still be dark at noon in the winter and light at midnight in the summer. You can't nearly compensate for that with a mere hour change, so why bother?

syrkis 9y ago

Had anyone here tried to live life with their iPhone on UTC?

yusyusyus 9y ago
yes. it makes reading logs easier.
__s 9y ago
I don't have a phone, boss wants me to get one, & I'll be setting it to UTC if I end up with one I've had my own devices set to UTC for the past few years. It made sense for coordinating when my friends are in whichever places of time, especially for online PvP gaming. It worked well when I was working remotely
jsmthrowaway 9y ago
UTC as a world clock is a happy medium, and works well. You get it in the notifications tray.

tzs 9y ago

There are probably better choices than Iceland, if Android supports them. Iceland doesn't do DST now, but has in the past (1917-1918, and 1939-1968). The farther North a place is, the stronger the case for DST, so I wouldn't count on Iceland changing not their mind someday. I'd pick someplace reasonably close to the equator. Then there is little difference in sunrise and sunset times throughout the year, and there is pretty much no case to be made for DST on sunlight grounds. Some good choices, if whatever you are trying to set supports any of them: • Liberia. City of Monrovia if you have to specify by city. There's only 0:43 difference between the longest and shortest daylight periods of the year there. • Guinea, city of Conakry. • Togo, city of Lomé. There are a few other countries in the general area of these three that are on UTC+0 but these three have never had DST so are probably more likely to stay that way.

seanmcdirmid 9y ago
> The farther North a place is, the stronger the case for DST I disagree. If you get to the north pole or anywhere near the Arctic Circle (where Iceland is), it can still be dark at noon in the winter and light at midnight in the summer. You can't nearly compensate for that with a mere hour change, so why bother?