[SOLVED] MacBook time always goes forward :(

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#20397 25-Mar-2008 11:07

Hi All,

My clock (time) in my MacBook always goes one hour back My clock in MacBook goes forward always and I have to manually set it to the right time after boot. This happens even for the Bootcamp partition running Vista. I am not sure how we change the MacBook's time in EFI (as we do in BIOS).

Can anyone help me out here? I have also tried syncing with the Internet Time Server (asia.apple.com) but still the time goes one hour back and DST for NZ is only on April 6th

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Chaks

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#118494 25-Mar-2008 11:25

Have you checked that you have the correct timezone setting? Have you checked that Apple has issued any updates for timezones?

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#118499 25-Mar-2008 11:39

freitasm:
Have you checked that you have the correct timezone setting? Have you checked that Apple has issued any updates for timezones?

I'm sure I saw a timezone update a few months back (before daylight savings started). Try going to http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/ and see what you can find.

Also, what version of OS X are you running, and are you up to date with your patches?

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#118508 25-Mar-2008 12:17

be aware, Windows prefers to set hardware clock to local timezone. only a problem when dual-booting, etc. sensible OS and sensible admin will set hardware clock to UTC.

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#118509 25-Mar-2008 12:18

Chaks what Macbook do you have? It must be a settings issue. I had the 2.20GHz and now have the 2.4GHz and I have no such issue.

I sync with time.apple.asia.com (thats the default, I have not changed it) and my timezone is NZDT Wellington.

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#118511 25-Mar-2008 12:22

tonyhughes: I sync with time.apple.asia.com (thats the default, I have not changed it) and my timezone is NZDT Wellington.

Correct. Chaks, check that you are not using NZDT Christchurch Special Timewarp Zone....

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#118515 25-Mar-2008 12:28

hmm..Will check again..I am sure I did everything right and I have checked for Update through Software Update, but didn't get any for Timezone. Will serach their site manually.

@tonyhughes, they are the 2.4GHz ones

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#118521 25-Mar-2008 12:49

chakkaradeep: hmm..Will check again..I am sure I did everything right and I have checked for Update through Software Update, but didn't get any for Timezone. Will serach their site manually.

@tonyhughes, they are the 2.4GHz ones

I have just done all default software updates - no manual trickery here.
Do you have any crazy PIM apps or other things that might stuff the TZ around?

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#118522 25-Mar-2008 12:56

First, my apologies friends, the time is not going one hour back, but.... my current time in my Mac is Wednesday 26th 1.44 AM

barf: be aware, Windows prefers to set hardware clock to local timezone. only a problem when dual-booting, etc. sensible OS and sensible admin will set hardware clock to UTC.

I seriously doubt that because this whole issue has started after installing Vista in my Bootcamp Partition. But then, even in Vista, I have the option to set from Internet Time...

Here are my screenshots,

and,

I am really stuck here and not sure what to do

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#118524 25-Mar-2008 13:00

gehenna:

I'm sure I saw a timezone update a few months back (before daylight savings started). Try going to http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/ and see what you can find.

Also, what version of OS X are you running, and are you up to date with your patches?

Couldn't get any update either in Software Update or from Apple website

And I am running Mac OS X 10.5.2

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#118525 25-Mar-2008 13:05

tonyhughes:
Do you have any crazy PIM apps or other things that might stuff the TZ around?

How do you find that? I checked most of my application's settings and they dont have TZ options

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#118535 25-Mar-2008 13:59

chakkaradeep:
First, my apologies friends, the time is not going one hour back, but.... my current time in my Mac is Wednesday 26th 1.44 AM?

barf:?be aware, Windows prefers to set hardware clock to local timezone. only a problem when dual-booting, etc. sensible OS and sensible admin will set hardware clock to UTC.

I seriously doubt that because this whole issue has started after installing Vista in my Bootcamp Partition. But then, even in Vista, I have the option to set from Internet Time...

Here are my screenshots,

Actually...

It was:

12:41 PM on 25th March 2008 at the ACTUAL time of the screenshot

but your screenshot shows:

1:41AM on 26th March 2008?

That's a difference of +13 Hours!

I've seen somewhere (about Hackintoshes though :() about time issues between Windows and Macs, and solutions...

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#118538 25-Mar-2008 14:10

manhinli:
but your screenshot shows:

1:41AM on 26th March 2008?

That's a difference of +13 Hours!

Yes

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#118541 25-Mar-2008 14:15

Sorry if you've already realised it, I looked at your post quickly before I knew that you would have already known that.

Here is a link - hope it helps! (deliberately not linked)

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11193

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#118547 25-Mar-2008 14:33

As has been mentioned, Windows stores the local time to the hardware clock, whereas most other OSs store UTC to the hardware clock. As the difference is 13 hours, this says that when you boot to Windows, it updates the time, and on shutdown it writes the localtime to the hardware clock. When you book back into OS X, it reads the harware clock, adds 13 hours (NZDT) and gives you what you see. When it syncs with the Time Server (which happens later than in Windows which seems to do it just after booting) it will set back to the correct time.

Annoying, I know - I had to deal with it when dual booting too!

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#118587 25-Mar-2008 16:50

As few have told in this thread, it is Vista which is creating problems and playing with the Time (

). I changed my time in Leopard & also chose to automatically set time and booted into Leopard nearly three times and the time is good now. But I havent booted into Windows (Vista) yet, but had made a small registry change. Have to see whether it works. There are few methods suggested from @manhinli's link which I have to try if that doesn't work.

@tonyhughes, is your Macbook good with XP

. The strangest part is that I hadn't changed the time in Windows at all and I think because its set to synchronize with Internet Server, this might have caused it. (D'oh)

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