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Mac showing wrong date and time

My Mac is showing the wrong date & time even though I have chosen the right region, and selected "set date and time automatically". The time zone is also in the right region. I have not switched on my macbook in a while so I'm thinking this is why it is not showing the right time. Please help me solve this problem!


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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Jun 15, 2022 12:38 AM

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Posted on Jun 15, 2022 6:23 AM

pandami_ wrote:

My Mac is showing the wrong date & time even though I have chosen the right region, and selected "set date and time automatically". The time zone is also in the right region. I have not switched on my macbook in a while so I'm thinking this is why it is not showing the right time. Please help me solve this problem!



You give no example of the discontinuity...(?)


How far off, a time zone away, off by years, wrong month, wrong day.... need something to go on here(?)



From Terminal.app you you can re-sync with Apple time servers, copy and paste:

sudo sntp -sS time.apple.com

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Jun 25, 2022 8:20 AM in response to pandami_

pandami_ wrote:

I have done a safeboot & reinstalled macos.
Still does not work :(


You can try as suggested above, reinstall th macOS on top of your existing macOS to sort anomaloes


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