Time zone stuck on GMT

Hey,

Can you walk me through this? I have an iMac 2.93gH and the bloody time zone keeps resetting to GMT. But I'm not tech-savvy so can't follow your instructions... can you please pretty please post a version of how to do this, for dummies like me? Baby steps? I'd really appreciate it, as I can see others have solved the problem with your advice!

Thanks, man.

Same thing happened to me in migrating from G5, OS 10.11 to the MacBook Pro, OS 10.5.7.

The Go to /etc worked! Definitely an easy solution.

Thanks.

Thanks for the fix...

THis solved it for me. Thank you sop much!!!!!

lmacy wrote:
Actually you do not need to enable the root user. Use the Finder's "Go to Folder..." command to open the /etc folder and drag the localtime folder to the trash. You will need to authenticate as an admin to do this. Then just open System Preferences and set Date and Time settings.

It appears that this only happens in a migration to Leopard, but I can not be sure.

Larry
lmacy wrote:
Actually you do not need to enable the root user. Use the Finder's "Go to Folder..." command to open the /etc folder and drag the localtime folder to the trash. You will need to authenticate as an admin to do this. Then just open System Preferences and set Date and Time settings.

Larry,

My most profound thanks! After painful 36 hours of dealing with this (reading all kinds of 'high tech' solutions and not comprehending any) you made it nice and easy...

Please let apple support know, so they could at least include this in the help topics (I can't believe the didn't - nine months after you posted this wonderful easy solution), if they are not able to deal with migration issue... or you could just continue making people happy after they come across this page by accident 🙂

Best in any case,

When I go to the /etc folder, there is no "localtime" (see below for the list I do have). Similarly, there is no "com.apple.time.clock" in the Library/Preferences folder. Is my computer just super messed-up, or is there something else I can try?

zprofile
6to4.conf
6to4.conf.applesaved
afpovertcp.cfg
aliases
aliases.db
amavisd.conf
apache2
asl.conf
authorization
authorization.user_modified
auto_home
auto_master
autofs.conf
bashrc
crontab
crontab.applesaved
csh.cshrc
csh.login
csh.logout
cups
defaults
dnsextd.conf
dumpdates
efax.rc
find.codes
fstab.hd
ftpusers
gettytab
group
hostconfig
hostconfig.system_default
hostconfig~
hosts
hosts.equiv
hosts.lpd
httpd
inetd.conf.applesaved
irbrc
kcpassword
kern_loader.conf
kern_loader.conf.applesaved
krb5.keytab
liveupdate.conf
locate.rc
mach init_per_loginsession.d
mach init_peruser.d
mach_init.d
mail
mail.rc
man.conf
manpaths
manpaths.d
master.passwd
memberd.conf
moduli
named.conf
named.conf.applesaved
nanorc
networks
newsyslog.conf
notify.conf
ntp-restrict.conf
ntp.conf
ntp.conf.applesaved
openldap
pam.d
passwd
paths
paths.d
periodic
php.ini.default
podcastproducer
postfix
ppp
printcap
profile
protocols
racoon
rc.common
rc.netboot
resolv.conf
rmtab
rpc
rtadvd.conf
rtadvd.conf.applesaved
services
shells
slpsa.conf
slpsa.conf.applesaved
smb.conf
smb.conf.applesaved
smb.conf.old
smb.conf.template
snmp
snmpd.conf.default
ssh_config
ssh_config.applesaved
ssh config.systemdefault
sshd_config
sshd_config.applesaved
sshd config.systemdefault
sudoers
sudoers.system_default
Symantec.conf
syslog.conf
syslog.conf.applesaved
ttys
ttys.applesaved
X11
xgrid
xinetd.conf.applesaved
xtab

Hi spiel_j;

Posting your question on the bottom of a thread that is marked as answered is certainly not the way to get it the attention it deserves. I would suggest that you repost starting a new thread for you question instead.

Allan

Thank you...thank you...thank you. Your solution worked for me.

I actually bought my MacBook in April 2009, it came preinstalled with Leopard and this happened to me on Wed last week. I was beside myself trying different forums to fix it... weird how the mail time would be a pet peeve of mine.

The /etc/ search and deleting the local time folder worked first try. I should have looked here first 🙂

Yay! It worked! Thanks Larry. 🙂