[Ham-Mac] Re:Time/Date Bug in Mac OSX

[Richard Kriss]

John, K8AJS

Thanks for the comments in response to my posting on how to test the battery
in the G4.  The battery was NOT the problem.  As I found out the hard way
and from your comments the problem was (and still is) a bug in the Mac OSX
for dialup connections.   The Apple blurb sayd the bug was in OS 10.2.4 and
the fix is to upgrade to 10.2.5   I am running 10.2.6 and still have the
problem of the date reverting to Dec 1969.

The ONLY fix I have found is to ditch the Network Time update option in the
System Preferences.  The Mac OSX has some dial up modem issues that have
never been resolved.  For reasons to long to list it drops (disconnects) the
dial up connection and does not alert the user that the connection has been
disrupted. If you are using the Network Time option, it tries to do an
update and and gets a network error and this scrambles the time/date setting
causing it to revert to 1969.  BTW, this action screws-up MS Entourage big
time.

My solution that has worked for several days is to only use the network
option to manually set or update the date and time. I then go back to the
normal Date/Time mode and make sure the network time box is unchecked and
saved.

Again this is a dialup connection issue only so the broadband user will not
see the problem.  I ditched broadband months ago due to the expense
$55/month vs. $10/month.....just don't need it for my usage.

Sorry about the long shaggy dog story.

Dick, AA5VU 

> From: "John E Bastin, K8AJS" <jbastin@sssnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ham-Mac] G4 Battery Test
>
> "Other workarounds posted on MacFixIt include using Apple's CHUD
> Tools and the small utility iTime 1.0. "

I downloaded this to find it is not an OSX utilituy

> 
> The best solution is the one suggested by Apple in the article, which
> is to upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X (now version 10.2.6).
> 
> I never saw this problem with 10.2.4, because I have a broadband
> connection and the Network Time update continuously running, so if
> the time was wrong, it was automatically corrected. Those with dialup
> connections are the ones that were affected the worse by this bug.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 73,
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