Can anyone suggest a fix?Paste this into Terminal and relogin:
Thanks, this actually worked, I set the clock manually
and I finally had the correct time. Wanting my time to
be as accurate as possible I checked off set date &
time automatically and It seems for whatever reason
my PowerBook is being sent the wrong information
from time.apple.com is there any way to correct this
behavior? Even if there is no "cure" I'm happy to have
a working clock finally. Thanks Again
Thanks, this actually worked, I set the clock manually and I finally
had the correct time. Wanting my time to be as accurate as possible I checked off set date & time automatically and It seems for whatever
reason my PowerBook is being sent the wrong information from
time.apple.com is there any way to correct this behavior?
As I stated in an earlier reply there seems to be an offset of 4 hours.
Here are the steps I took: With the date & time set MANUALLY I open
a terminal window and at the command prompt I type "date" and the
reply is offset MINUS 4 hours, yet the clock in the menu bar states the
correct time. With the date & time set AUTOMATICALLY I type date
again in the terminal window, which I'd left open for the purpose of gathering this information, and the reply is the correct time, yet the
clock
in the menu bar now displays the time PLUS 4 hours.
Falsely, I mistakenly reported my computer was set to EST, because I
thought that's where I was when by the settings in date & time, I'm
actually
in EDT. No matter the time zone setting, there is an offset by +/- 4
hours.
Again I thank you for all your help in semi-puzzling matter
Falsely, I mistakenly reported my computer was set to EST, because I
thought that's where I was when by the settings in date & time, I'm
actually
in EDT. No matter the time zone setting, there is an offset by +/- 4
hours.
date displays 12:00:00 EDT 2006
date -u displays 16:00:17 GMT 2006
echo $TZ diplays
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In article <1144666111.186284.153160@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
narosis <narosis@gmail.com> wrote:
Falsely, I mistakenly reported my computer was set to EST, because I >>thought that's where I was when by the settings in date & time, I'm >>actually
in EDT. No matter the time zone setting, there is an offset by +/- 4
hours.
Someone suggested upthread that you delete >/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
Log out of your normal account. When presented with the login[...]
window, enter ">console" for the username. This will take you to
a text-based console (yea Unix!). Then run these commands to (1)
turn your shell into a superuser shell; (2) find the process ID
for ntpd, and kill it; (3) clean up any files associated with ntpd;
(4) remove the .GlobalPreferences.plist file; and (5) reboot the
system without going back to the windowing system:
$ sudo -s
# kill `ps ax | grep ntpd | grep -v grep | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'`
# rm /var/run/ntp.drift /var/run/ntpd.pid
# rm /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
# reboot
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