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Automatic Timezone Inaccurate
I had an issue wherein we are trying to implement an automatic timezone for users as they travel alot. The objective is that whenever a user goes say US, the timezone will automatically adjust to where he is.
What we did is 2 things:
To forcibly enable location services on a user device
Enable the tzautoupdate via script
Note: No defined/default timezone is selected
Upon observation on a test user when enabled, everything is perfect except for when he was onsite at an office in UK. For some reason, when he is connected to office the timezone automatically shifts to UTC-4. We have tested it for almost 2 weeks and its still the same hence we halted the testings and removed the configuration.
I have found similar issue that it might be related to Geolocation of Microsoft Database and unfortunately there is no way to update it or request it to be updated as there is no procedure how to raise them to update as well.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/answers/questions/5869140/persistent-incorrect-geolocation-on-windows-device
In line with it, I created a microsoft case and based on our discussion and testings there is no issue on the device and/or the configuration and the only action plan that we have is to hope that this discussion gets to be seen and maybe microsoft updates their Geolocation Database.