I am new to using a Mac. I seeing thie weird offset of time with it, no specifc gaps in time sometimes its as much as 40 mins behind other times, it is 20-30 minute behind. I have it set to atomatically upate time from apple server. unsure what else to do.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.4
Can you connect to the Internet?
If you CAN, the INTERNAL Date&Time are likely correct, but how it is displayed TO YOU is messed up. In that case, see this article:
Change how dates, times, and more display on Mac - Apple Support
Change how dates, times, and more appear on Mac - Apple Support
The procedure is:
change the Region to a different one, NOT your own. e.g., in the UK, set to the US.
Close the window and save changes.
Change to the Region you wish to use in the long run.
Close the window and save changes.
Restart your Mac.
Test.
Here is the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/17pqni0/macos_sonoma_drifting_system_time/
“I raised an apple support case for this. We repeated the steps and they grabbed the logs. After the case was escalated they instructed me to run this command from the terminal. sudo mv /var/db/timed/com.apple.timed.plist ~/Destop ; sudo reboot
Now when I set the date and time automatically from the system preferences it sets the correct date and time as expected. Hopefully this simple trick might help others.
I saw this from this forum: Date and time in my Mac goes wrong in aut… - Apple Community
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This helped me! Although just sudo rm /var/db/timed/com.apple.timed.plist and then reboot woks fine.
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Thanks for replying. Yes, I can connect to the Internet and it (time)stays corner for a couple of days. I have to toggle the switch automatic time and turn it back on for it to brings it back to correct time.
No, my battery is never down to zero. I have seen multiple people with same problem. Particularly with Sonoma. There seem to be a solution that requires little coding knowledge, which I don’t have unfortunately:(
Unless you battery is being run down to zero, the time should be maintained correctly.
if time does not get corrected and stay generally correct, you may have a complex hardware issue.
can you post a link so readers can look into one of those?
Mac Sonoma automatically sets incorrect time
