Dodgy Mac Date and Time

[Stu Barbour]

I have just changed over to Mac from PC and all is going well with pro tools, the only problem is every time I switch on my mac, the date and time have changed to anything from 1900's to 2040 ! It is getting really irritating. I changed the battery and als "zapped the p ram" but it still does it. Any ideas ?

[Avid]

Are you setting the Date & Time Control Panel to the current time and also selecting a Time Zone? (whenever you zap the PRAM it defaults to no time zone and needs to be reset)

[dmcgilli]

Depending on the age of your computer, the watch battery that keeps the PRAM data alive when you turn off your mac may be dead. It looks like a watch battery on your motherboard.

if the pref. thing doesnt work, that may be why.

Daniel

[Nine Spine]

I had this same problem on my ibook for a while, but I trashed the Date and Time Preferences and then made sure my clock was not set to get it's time and date from a network, and it has worked fine ever since. Maybe this will help.

[thermoboy]

There is a known bug with dates and time when you often switch between Mac OS 9.x and a certain version of OSX (10.1.3 or lower I think). The 2 clocks seem always out of sync, and fixing one in OSX makes the one in OS9 go mad and vice versa. I've had this problem for a long time, until I upgraded to the latest version of OSX.

Hope this helps

Aloha

[Stu Barbour]

Thanks, I'll have another go at it.