Patent ID: 7668206

Claim:
A method for automatically setting a time, the method comprising: setting a first time by a user, said first time corresponding to a region where a digital broadcast receiver is located; storing time zone information on a plurality of time zones and respective time differences between the plurality of time zones in a storage unit; and if a broadcast signal received by the digital broadcast receiver includes time information indicating a second time: calculating a difference between the first time set by the user and the second time from the broadcast signal; automatically selecting a first time zone from among the plurality of time zones stored in the storage unit, by retrieving the first time zone corresponding to the difference between the first time and the second time from the storage unit, and setting the selected first time zone as a current time zone in the storage unit of the digital broadcast receiver; and if a command to display time information is received, applying a time difference corresponding to the first time zone to the time information in the broadcast signal received at a time when the command to display the time information is received to obtain adjusted time information, and displaying the adjusted time information.