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Some older Google Home smart clocks can't tell the correct time

Nov 2, 2026 — 4:08 AM ET

- Several Lenovo Smart Clock units are showing the incorrect time in many parts of Canada.

- Canada recently adopted daylight saving time permanently, but Lenovo Smart Clocks haven’t updated correctly.

- The issue reportedly occurs on both the Clock and Clock Essential models.

Several territories in Canada recently flipped the decades-long tradition of changing clocks at the start and end of winter, permanently switching to permanent daylight saving time. That includes Alberta, parts of British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Yukon. While that saves you the mental exercise of adjusting time every time at the major change of the seasons, big tech companies, including Lenovo, may have been scrambling to implement the change smoothly.

Last month, Google had warned that the final time change, supposed to happen yesterday, November 1, would turn the clocks back by an hour on Android devices that are either old or running outdated software. But users of Android devices are not the only ones suffering due to the change.

A slew of users who own the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential report seeing incorrect time on the clock. Reports on Reddit indicate that several owners of Lenovo’s smart clock, including those residing in Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba, have been facing a similar issue.

Many of these owners also confirm that other Google Home devices, including the TV Streamer and other smart displays, have correctly updated to the new time. It is just the particular Lenovo Smart Clock Essential that’s off by an hour.

Interestingly, the smart clock still deploys Google Assistant and hasn’t fully upgraded to Gemini, even though the non-Essential variant with an actual display started migrating to Gemini last year.

Existing users have observed that when asked for the current time, Google Assistant responds correctly, even though the LED display shows the wrong time. Measures such as factory resetting the watch don’t address this either.

However, some users have figured out a workaround by switching their home addresses to other regions, matching the time to their actual location.

In another Reddit post, owners of the Lenovo Smart Clock (non-Essential) confirm that the change hasn’t been implemented on their smart displays. Understandably, that can be frustrating for users, especially those who rely on the Smart Clock’s core functionality — of a clock — for crucial alarms, timers, and more.

A similar pattern of smart displays showing the incorrect time appeared in 2022, when Jordan permanently adopted Summer time, and again in 2023, when Mexico discontinued daylight saving. The resolution, unfortunately, took months back then, though it’s unclear how long it might take.

We’ve written to both Lenovo and Google to ask about the correct implementation of Canada’s new time rules, and will share any updates we receive.