How do I change the time zone of my Sonos system?

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June 8, 2024
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My Sonos system is showing the time in GMT when I check on my desktop app so the alarms are all incorrect as I am based in Australia. I can’t find any way of correcting this.

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Best answer by Jeje

The update of today finally added timezone settings and even sommer/winter time adjustment. So it finally works without any workaround needed anymore. :)

Airgetlam

I think (having not checked) that you do so by logging in to your account at www.sonos.com, and setting it there.

Bruce

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Tch1Author

Contributor I

Thank you for trying to help but I can’t find anywhere in the online account to change the time zone. My address is correctly shown. There must be some way to change the time but I can’t find it anywhere.

Belly M

Correctly shows but there have been anomalies, delete your address and add it back again. I think the country drop down list was altered at some point and now requires refreshing.

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Michael.B

Enthusiast II

Time zone settings worked in the old 16.1 mobile app but were courageously thrown away by Sonos kids in the new May 2024 app, along with multiple other things which these jolly jesters deemed “unnecessary”.

controlav

Lead Maestro

You can change Sonos’s timezone to Australia via the UPnP call

AlarmClock.SetTimeZone(3, False)

on any of your speakers (or pass True for AutoDST).

You can do this via Intel’s UPnP Spy tool, or any other UPnP/automation tool that allows function calls.

It is only used for display/input: Sonos stores alarms in UTC. The timezone setting wont effect when the alarm runs, just how it is shown to the user.

I still don’t quite understand why Sonos even has its own idea of timezone and doesn’t just simply use the TZ of the user running the app. (This is what my Windows app does for Alarms, you could use that to edit your alarms in your local TZ).

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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Tch1Author

Contributor I

Thanks to https://en.community.sonos.com/members/controlav-35210 pointing me in the correct direction I have achieved success. I used UPnP Mate on my iPad and under actions for one my speakers I passed various numbers in the set time zone field. The numbers seem to be sequential in a look up list starting from GMT-12 moving east. Thus 3 was Alaska and I got to 67 before I was in Sydney! I did some big jumps once I got the idea. Anyway, my time zone is now set correctly and I can set alarms in local time rather than GMT.

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MengTeck

Lyricist III

Pardon me. What is UPnP Mate?

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MengTeck

Lyricist III

Manage to download UPnP Mate for iPhone. When I click into my Beam Gen 2 > Alarm > SetTimeZone, there is no options to key in numbers. Attached is the screenshot on my phone.