PC had the right time, macs didn't

[elmo3]

[quote N-OS X-tasy!]Feel better, elmo, now that you've administered your daily dose of churlishness?
Gee, one wonders that you didn't ask lafinfil if he felt better, having spewed his daily dose of misinformation.

Fact: when someone spouts such blatantly wrong information, especially 3 times in the same thread, especially AFTER having the correct information explained to him, I will call him on it. Every time.

Do you have a problem with that?

[RAMd®d]

I will call him on it. Every time.


And you will needlessly, unnecessarily be an asshole while doing it.

Every time. Typical elmo behavior.

Geeeze, your ego must be both huge and fragile.

Go to your room little boy, and don't come out until you can at least act like a grown up.

[Racer X]

[quote elmo3][quote lafinfil]Are your macs connected to the internet ?

Do you have the mac set to set time automatically from the network server ?

If the answer to either of these is "no" - then you will not have the correct time
The mac doesn't have any imbedded time chip (at least that I'm aware of)
wow....the amount of flat-out bad information that gets spewed on the net is just amazing.

(pssst--yes, your computer has a clock inside it, plus a small flat battery to run the clock and some other things)


This makes me wonder how people get up and make it through the day.
so, to your eyes, this is small and flat? This could start to explain a lot of things

[lafinfil]

I'm really not even going to bother with troll boy

Simply gave Miss Sam a simple explanation of a possible reason why her macs clock didn't update

I can't help it if elmo is so anal retentive - it's a gift of some sort I'm sure

[elmo3]

[quote RAMd®d] I will call him on it. Every time.


And you will needlessly, unnecessarily be an asshole while doing it.
That you would think so, is a badge of honor.

[elmo3]

[quote lafinfil]I'm really not even going to bother with troll boy
LOL! There you go again, defining "troll" as "anyone saying something you don't like".



[quote lafinfil]Simply gave Miss Sam a simple explanation of a possible reason why her macs clock didn't update
A completely wrong explanation, spouting things that flat-out aren't true. Her computer doesn't have a "clock chip" in it and doesn't store the time itself, but instead requires an internet connection to a time server?

Are you STILL insisting that to be the case, for a fourth time in one thread?

[Racer X]

he's completely ignoring the round battery issue.......

[mikebw]

Are we just arguing about the semantics of the term "time chip"?

lafinfil is pretty much correct in his statement. If the mac is not connected to the Internet, or is not set to auto check time against a time server then it will not have the correct time following this DST event.

True, every mac does have an internal clock which receives power from the internal clock or PRAM battery when the computer it turned off. Some macs use a button cell lithium battery, other use a 3.6V lithium or 4.5V battery, but it wouldn't matter if your computer had a 24v lead-acid battery or no battery at all, if the computer didn't know the time had changed or was supposed to change the internal clock would be wrong.

Is anyone denying that?

[quote lafinfil]Are your macs connected to the internet ?

Do you have the mac set to set time automatically from the network server ?

If the answer to either of these is "no" - then you will not have the correct time
The mac doesn't have any imbedded time chip (at least that I'm aware of)
so you either have to do it manually or have it checked to do it online

Mine were all just fine

[Panopticon]

[quote mikebw - ]
...If the mac is not connected to the Internet, or is not set to auto check time against a time server then it will not have the correct time following this DST event. ...
... Is anyone denying that?
Yes, I do deny that.
If said Mac has the appropriate update to the OS and it is functioning correctly; it does not need an internet connection nor does it require 'auto check' with a time server to be enabled. The switch to DST is handled by the OS. Yesterday, it bumped the time forward an hour. In November, it will bump it back an hour. That said, the OS will not correct a bad time setting. For that, you need to manually set the time in the Date & Time prefs panel or enable the Time Server Check in same (which does require an internet connection).

Unless its PRAM battery is bad, any Mac that failed to show DST Enabled yesterday did not have the OS correctly installed and updated. As I noted before, Apple provided the updates over a year ago.

btw, If anyone really wants to know what is wrong with samintx's Macs, it is not the hardware. It's her failure to properly set them up to for a 'net connection. Just look at her posts regarding DSL service. http://forums.macresource.com/search/1/s..._forum=ALL

[mikebw]

I am in total agreement with you Panopticon. But if you go back and read what I wrote I stipulated "if the computer didn't know the time had changed or was supposed to change the internal clock would be wrong". Clearly you understand that point, so I don't think you are really disputing my statement.