Setting date and time

Does anyone know why booting from the Tiger Install CD and running Disk Utility>Repair Permissions doesn't fix the problem? (Especially since the "manual" permissions repair fixes the problem, albeit by deleting then recreating /etc/localtime.)

I am having almost the same exact problem. I live in Portland Oregon, and if I select Portland in the Time and Date Preferences, the menu bar clock shows the GMT time, not local time. If I select any other time zone, everything works fine (for that time zone).

I checked all the file permissions and ownership of /etc/localtime and the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo, and everything there was ok, but the problem persists. Interestingly, there are almost no files for individual US cities, just US/Pacific. However, files do exist for America/Vancouver, America/Phoenix, and even America/Los_Angeles.

My workaround was to select Vancouver as my time zone city, and everything now works fine. Los Angeles seems to work as well. But Portland, San Francisco, and other west coast cities display GMT. It looks like any selection in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America works, while any other Pacific time city (which uses /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific) doesn't work.

I also own a more recent PowerBook, and it works fine when Portland is selected. It is interesting to see that other people have the same problem.

This is definitely some kind of bug that should be fixed by Apple.

Just setting up a new iMac and I am suffering from this problem too. I have tried all the fixes suggested in this thread, but nothing worked.

Has Apple woken up to this problem yet?

I posted this in another thread but I figured it was worth mentioning here too:

I haven't figured out the ultimate cause yet, but I was able to work around it by running System Preferences as root. Setting the time zone that way seems to stick, and it recreates the /etc/localtime symlink with usable permissions (i.e. 755, rwxr-xr-x). Re-opening the Date & Time prefpane as 'myself' and touching the time zone causes the file to be resaved with bad permissions (711, rwx--x--x). So, I don't do that. 🙂

FYI, to run System Preferences as root, execute the following line in Terminal.app:

sudo /Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences

(and enter the admin password as requested)

I'm going to submit it as a bug to Apple.

Hi everybody,

I would like to add some feedback to this thread. In July 2005, the first time I installed Tiger on my G5 I had the exact same problem. I set the time zone to New York and it reverted systematically to GMT. I tried everything but nothing worked and tired I gave up and went back to Panther. I recently decided to give it another try and ended up with the same problem, again, but, this time I noticed that the problem occurred in the same way it occurred the first time, which was after adding Widgets to the Dashboard and playing around with them. I am not a Unix guru or not even a disciple 😉 but this little info may help those who try to find a solution.
To solve my problem I tried several solutions proposed on this thread but the only one that finally worked is the one offered by "Derek Lichter" posted: Dec 27, 2005. Thanx to Derek and all of you.

helene

G5 2GHZ Dual 3GB RAM & 23 Apple Display