Mac OS X 10.3.x: Time being incorrectly set one hour ahead
We've received separate, corroborating reports of a problem that cropped up recently where Mac OS X 10.3.x sets the time one hour ahead of the setting listed in the Date and Time pane of System Preferences.
MacFixIt reader Shlomit Heymann writes "The time on finder shows one hour ahead although on the preferences the time is correct. Selecting the option for view in window shows the time correctly, but on the finder it shows one hour ahead."
Daniel Sass writes "Haven?t seen this issue since OS 8.5, but even though daylight savings time is still a week away, my menu bar has kicked the hour ahead. The weird thing is that even when I verify that the clock is set correctly in the Date and Time Preferences, the menu clock (and system clock) is still one hour ahead. This is true whether or not I manually correct the time OR automatically use the network time."
If you are experiencing a similar issue, please drop us a line at late-breakers@macfixit.com.
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Monday morning, iMac clock was showing new time at one hour ahead. No
problem with clock in 10.3.3 here.
Anyone with problems should check to see if timezone is set correctly. Also
use a network timeserver if practical. That can help to keep system time
running smoothly.
has something to do with the fact that daylight savings time is determined
here on a custom basis - whereas in many other countries it is pre-defined in
a standard fashion.
I remember this problem as well on MacOS 8.5, but haven't encountered it
since.
When I installed 10.3.3 and restarted the clock was off. I'm
in the Eastern Time zone and found that the default city was
Cupertino! I just clicked on an East Coast city and all has
been well since.
start daylight saving time on the last Sunday of March, so they are one hour
ahead now.
So if the time is wrong by one hour, this would either indicate the user has
set the time zone incorrectly, or the time zone description in the OS has a
bug. There are indeed often problems with the Israeli time zone info, because
Israel changes the DST interval each year.
To verify if this is a bug, do a "zdump -v <timezone>", for example, "zdump
-v Israel" in Terminal.
- by Macsure March 31, 2004 11:35 AM PST
- It's bad enough we have to screw around resetting clocks, then go
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(5 Comments)grumping through each day with even less than our normally inadequate
sleep, but now "Daylight Savings Time" seems to have taken over an
entire computer operating system.
This is the kind of thing that happens when you let lobbyists implement
government regulation of our lives. Or should I say; When we allow
government of, by and for the lobbyists?
This (and much else) would not have happened if we'd "stuffed" this
stupid idea in the first place.
We can still do that, see:
http://www.standardtime.com/