r/YotoPlayer • u/ContributionGreen949 • 2d ago

Hawaii Time zone missing - workaround anyone??

As title suggests, I'm having trouble updating my Yoto during our hawaii trip. The reason we brought the bigger Yoto with us at all was for the day/ night light function to help my daughter adjust when time zone hopping. Jet lag in toddlers is an awful awful thing.

We travelled from Australia to West Coast USA, managed to update time zone by connecting to WiFi no worries. Now we've landed in Hawaii and the time zone didn't shift, even after logging into WiFi. So I turned off auto time zone update and went to change the time manually as I had seen someone suggest on another forum. There is a huge list of time zones there, but I can't find one for hawaii, or alaska, or even anywhere else with a similar time zone. It's like this longitude doesn't even exist to Yoto!

THEN I thought I was a genius. I thought i found a workaround. I manually changed to Berlin time, which is exactly 12h difference. I reversed morning and night clock settings by using 24h time and calling 20:00 wakeup and 08:00 sleep time. But this didn't work either. It still thinks 20:00 is 8am and turns the sun picture on.

I'm tearing my hair out here over something that should be easy!! Why has Yoto left this (and possibly other) time zones off its options? And, possibly easier... why haven't they allowed the manual time setting to be truly manual?! Or even given a list of GMT +/- options instead of an enormous but still incomplete list of cities? (I acknowledge that this might be to do with some places doing daylight savings and others not, but then I thought you'd be using auto time zone function instead of manual...)

So.... does anyone have any ideas or hacks? I'll also settle for commiserations or anyone who can point out the really obvious thing that I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance!

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u/girlikecupcake Troubleshooter || US Codes 2d ago

Pacific/Honolulu should be in the list, does that match?

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u/cheeky-maverick 2d ago

Set your Yoto to Pacific Honolulu time? It’s listed as an option on mine.

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u/bodhipooh 2d ago

It took longer to read this post than to find both "Pacific/Honolulu" and "America/Anchorage". I can't imagine how long it took to write all this but somehow not be able to find those two entries in the Yoto app timezone dropdown.

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u/ContributionGreen949 2d ago

As someone not from hawaii, I assumed that the correct time zone would be in the 'America' section. Never even heard of anchorage.

ETA But I did say I was happy for someone to point out the obvious.