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#1 2006-10-28 8:57 pm
- sex pistols
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Macs Clock changes it's own time?
We had to put the clocks back an hour tonight and as always my Mac did it itself.
Now then how the fook does it do this? it's always puzzled me!!!
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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#2 2006-10-28 10:06 pm
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Re: Macs Clock changes it's own time?
internet.
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#3 2006-10-28 10:15 pm
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MAGIC
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#4 2006-10-28 10:36 pm
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steve jobs snuck into your house and changed the time. he does it to every other mac user too. he's practically freakin' santa.
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#5 2006-10-28 11:12 pm
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Re: Macs Clock changes it's own time?
Donkey Butter wrote:
internet.
Wow amazing! even when my Mac wasn't connected to the internet for like 6 years?
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#6 2006-10-28 11:13 pm
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dmceleney wrote:
MAGIC
Zzzzzzzzzzz.
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#7 2006-10-28 11:13 pm
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333imacman wrote:
steve jobs snuck into your house and changed the time. he does it to every other mac user too. he's practically freakin' santa.
Not bad, a worthy effort. 4/10.
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#8 2006-10-28 11:34 pm
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Think it's a specific Sunday thing in the time and date protocols. Daylight savings time is always from the first Sunday in April & the last Sunday of October.
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#9 2006-10-28 11:38 pm
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ScifiterX wrote:
Think it's a specific Sunday thing in the time and date protocols.
There will probably have to be an update for next year. Stupid government.
I somehow doubt that MS or Apple will release updates for older OS versions. Anybody using Panther, OS 9, Windows 98, etc. will have to set their clocks manually, then set them again when the DST code kicks in on the wrong date.
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#10 2006-10-29 5:46 am
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sex pistols wrote:
Donkey Butter wrote:
internet.
Wow amazing! even when my Mac wasn't connected to the internet for like 6 years?
Donkey Butter is correct. In the Date and Time preference pane there is the option to Set date and time automatically. There are 3 options: Apple Americas/U.S. (time.apple.com); Apple Asia (time.asia.apple.com); Apple Europe (time.euro.apple.com). Select one of these and choose your time zone and the clock gets set automatically. The fact that your clock set itself when you were not connected to the internet I have no answer for, only that mine didn't nor any of the other guys that I worked with for all those years.
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#11 2006-10-29 6:30 am
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Anyone live in an area of the US that doesn't honor DST? Did your clock change automatically? I know Windows has the option of changing automatically, but, with OS X I haven't found the option. Does OS X just assume it?
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#12 2006-10-29 6:49 am
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sparkn wrote:
Anyone live in an area of the US that doesn't honor DST? Did your clock change automatically? I know Windows has the option of changing automatically, but, with OS X I haven't found the option. Does OS X just assume it?
Never thought of that. Must be fun in Indiana!
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#13 2006-10-29 7:09 am
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sparkn wrote:
Anyone live in an area of the US that doesn't honor DST? Did your clock change automatically? I know Windows has the option of changing automatically, but, with OS X I haven't found the option. Does OS X just assume it?
You tell it where you live, of course.
And as of this year, those stubborn bits of Indiana are on board.
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#14 2006-10-29 10:31 am
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without my computers clock changing, i would never have known it was DST.
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#15 2006-10-29 2:34 pm
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Re: Macs Clock changes it's own time?
sex pistols wrote:
333imacman wrote:
steve jobs snuck into your house and changed the time. he does it to every other mac user too. he's practically freakin' santa.
Not bad, a worthy effort. 4/10.
Oh come on. Steve and Santa. Just mentioning the two earns me a solid 5.
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#16 2006-10-29 6:59 pm
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Re: Macs Clock changes it's own time?
Jonski wrote:
sparkn wrote:
Anyone live in an area of the US that doesn't honor DST? Did your clock change automatically? I know Windows has the option of changing automatically, but, with OS X I haven't found the option. Does OS X just assume it?
Never thought of that. Must be fun in Indiana!
We change our clocks now.
There was an "indiana" setting prior to the change, though.
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#17 2006-10-29 7:03 pm
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bratboy wrote:
Jonski wrote:
sparkn wrote:
Anyone live in an area of the US that doesn't honor DST? Did your clock change automatically? I know Windows has the option of changing automatically, but, with OS X I haven't found the option. Does OS X just assume it?
Never thought of that. Must be fun in Indiana!
We change our clocks now.
There was an "indiana" setting prior to the change, though.
Was it county based, though? 
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#18 2006-10-29 7:12 pm
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I have mine clock set to MST, closest city of Phoenix. Of course I don't have to worry about DST here in Arizona!!
Of course I also use time.nist.gov for my time server.
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