Date Stamp on All Products Shows Incorrect Minute

OnofreShoots wrote:

Ever since my MacBook Air 2011, anything that has involved a date stamp always shows the correct hour, but the minute is always ":08". For example, when I check my iMessages, it says all incoming messages came in at "18:08", even though they certainly did not. The time displayed on my screen saver says "16:08", even though that is not the correct minute.

I've done the Date & Time thing, where I have it automatically set to my time zone and sets the date and time automatically, so it's not that. I've tried entering it manually, then changing back to setting it automatically, and that doesn't work. I just got the latest MacBook Air and this problem still persists. It's not taking away from me getting anything out of this product, but it's a slight annoyance. All the items in Support have been tried, so don't bother telling me those again. I am just hoping to make this aesthetically pleasing—and correct—again.

Thanks.

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Whatever was causing this problem was migrated from the old mac to the new one.

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Double check those date and time settings. It sounds like you may have set a custom time format where the seconds isn't the seconds field but the hard-coded text "08".

Great catch!