Time zone adjustment
Waze should adjust ETA to the local time when destination is a different time zone. When you leave Phoenix for southwest CO, for example, the ETA should be in mountain time, not AZ time. Currently, the ETA only adjusts when your phone automatically adjusts as you cross the time zone. It would be nice to know drive time is 6 hours, but ETA is 7 hours due to time change.
Hey,
Please note we're changing the status of this suggestion to Not right now, since we finalized our plans for 2023 and this idea won't be implemented this year.
We hope to have it included in our plans for later years and will keep you posted.
Thanks!
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Bob McCormick commented
Amazed that this is still an outstanding issue - seems so basic and I concur with just about every other comment I've read here. Since 1883 North American railroads got together and were able to provide accurate arrival at destination times in their timetables. 140 years later and we're still waiting for Waze to be able to offer drivers this basic functionality.
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Stacey Carson commented
We travel a lot across time zones and it would be a great boon to have this. I love Waze but we've learned that it's just not worth it to use when we are planning a trip cross different time zones. :(
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Trace Doty commented
This has always been a thorn in my side. I agree 100% that the arrival time should be the time at your arrival location! Not the time zone you are currently in. Let me see... Waze says I'll be there at 1pm but, I'm actually crossing 2 time zones so in reality, I'll be there at 11am. Waze should do the math!
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Susan Muller commented
It is confusing and very difficult when going over time zones to know if the arrival time is in the current time zone. Waze could solve this by showing the starting time zone, and the time zone of the destination you’re arriving at. It should be similar to airplane flights where the time destination is always shown in the time zone that you’re arriving at.
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Rishi commented
You should show the destination time in the destination time zone. We will have to switch to Apple Maps since this has happened to us before. I am not sure if Google is not allowing Waze to update, but it is ridiculous you cannot change this for 2023!
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Murphy commented
Please consider adding. I just realized the time change wasn't considered. Almost drove to a funeral arriving 2 hours early unintentionally. This would increase clarity and confidence in arrive time. 🙏🏾
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Sam Bass commented
You mean you are working on adding 4 lines of code???
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Eddie Emch commented
This is the only reason I can't use Waze
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G$ commented
Just happened to me. While driving from CST to EDT we wondered if the arrival time took this into account. Another passenger opened Google maps and put in the same destination and IT DID add the hour. So going forward I will be using Google maps when driving across time zones.
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Dawn commented
For all the cool things Waze does, this one is so basic and needed. At very least add a reminder or notification that time zone is not factored in so we are aware and not arriving late to places! This has caught us off guard a few times and is frustrating.
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Kelly Wills commented
Have app adjust and project leaving and arrival times per time zones
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Sublarry commented
How can you not have this feature when it is one of the most important things for business travelers to know?
Thanks,
Sublarry
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Brian Bezanson commented
This affected our trip and destination tour today. We were late by an hour and needed to reschedule.
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Darla Sutton commented
I travel across time zones frequently for work and this is an issue for me.
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Baby M commented
I remembered why I stopped using Waze when I traveled across time zones. Only, I remembered AFTER I was late getting somewhere. I planned my trip the night before and was STILL late because WAZE didn’t factor the time change (cst to est).
I wish you would either fix this issue, have an alert pop up when the trip is crossing time zones or put the time zone in the arrival time so those of us that plan to leave ahead of time aren’t missing important events or work.
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Greg VanSickle commented
Please add.
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Brian Bonselaar commented
The easiest temporary solution would be to add the time zone (EST, CST, MTN...) to the departure and arrival times listed. This would make it so you can easily see what your looking at and make the proper adjustments to departure times.
It would also be helpful if there were a banner or alert in the planned drive section warning about this.
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Psychotic Elf commented
This would be incredibly helpful cuz I run into this same issue all the time!
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Tilghman Lesher commented
Since this has worked so long one way, it might introduce problems to suddenly change it. Here's my recommendation for fixing this. In any route that crosses a time zone boundary (or which includes a "trigger" tile that indicates that the time zone may be uncertain), simply append the time zone to the expected arrival time.
As the time and time zone will change when the user switches cellular towers to one in the different time zone, the expected arrival time will always be valid, in that users can make the adjustment, when they see that the "wrong" time zone is used, without confusing users who already knew that they needed to make an adjustment.
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Jim Richardson commented
I regularly travel between Indiana and Illinois. It would be great to not have to constantly do the math to know what time I will be arriving.