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MacBook Air M1 2020 changing time back ~13 month after wakeup from sleep.

My MacBook Air M1 2020 changes time back ~13 month after wakeup from sleep. This looks like a duplicate of MacBook Air time changing back ~5 months … - Apple Community but sadly this post is to old to ask the OP if they found a solution.


Settings to reproduce this:


  • Set time and date automatically is switched on.
  • Set timezone automatically using your current location is switched on.


What I already did:


  • Turned off set time and date automatically which seemed to fix the issue but is no long term solution.
  • Changed the timeserver from time.apple.com to one of ntp pool which did not fix the issue.




Posted on Nov 25, 2023 9:45 AM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2023 12:37 PM

ishigami wrote:

My MacBook Air M1 2020 changes time back ~13 month after wakeup from sleep. This looks like a duplicate of MacBook Air time changing back ~5 months … - Apple Community• but sadly this post is to old to ask the OP if they found a solution.

Settings to reproduce this:

Set time and date automatically is switched on.
• Set timezone automatically using your current location is switched on.
What I already did:

Turned off set time and date automatically which seemed to fix the issue but is no long term solution.
• Changed the timeserver from time.apple.com to one of ntp pool which did not fix the issue.





others have been trying to sort this—


see if it works for you:


Mac (version sonoma 14.1.1) gave me wrong date and time when setting it to automatic

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255268729?answerId=259845832022#259845832022




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Nov 26, 2023 12:37 PM in response to ishigami

ishigami wrote:

My MacBook Air M1 2020 changes time back ~13 month after wakeup from sleep. This looks like a duplicate of MacBook Air time changing back ~5 months … - Apple Community• but sadly this post is to old to ask the OP if they found a solution.

Settings to reproduce this:

Set time and date automatically is switched on.
• Set timezone automatically using your current location is switched on.
What I already did:

Turned off set time and date automatically which seemed to fix the issue but is no long term solution.
• Changed the timeserver from time.apple.com to one of ntp pool which did not fix the issue.





others have been trying to sort this—


see if it works for you:


Mac (version sonoma 14.1.1) gave me wrong date and time when setting it to automatic

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255268729?answerId=259845832022#259845832022




Nov 26, 2023 4:33 AM in response to a brody

Hi a brody,


Thank you for your advice. I tested it connected to the power adapter and it still happens. Whats interesting is, timed seems to get the right time via ntp and then fails for some reason and sets the time to October last year.


2023-11-26 13:14:16.717 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:text] Received time Sun Nov 26 13:14:16 2023±0.00 from "NTP"
2023-11-26 13:14:16.717 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:data] cmd,T,src,NTP,rtc_s,526846.443803917,rtc_unc_s,0.000000000,t_s,722693656.681365013,unc_s,0.004723646,mach,498373385696
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:data] TDTF,RtcRollBack,rtc,526846.443804,utc,722693656.681365,unc,0.004724,source,NTP,_rtc,34914285.529286
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 E  timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:text] TDTF unhandled synthesizer error: 3
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:text] TDTF,WrongPredictState,Current,rtc,34914285.529,utc,721987843.046,sf,0.99995644,utcStd,0.00573306,sfStd,0.00000597,PredictState,rtc,526846.445,utc,687601902.017,sf,0.99995644,utcStd,19412.69302877,sfStd,0.00097776,dRtc,-34387439.085,dUtc,-34385941.029,ddtc,1498.056,lastRtc,34914285.529,rtc,34914285.529
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:data] cmd,checkActiveTimeSourceRequired,rtc_s,526846.445113,bb_want_unc_s,inf,want_unc_s,0.050000,bb_want_rtc_s,inf,want_rtc_s,34916498.876520
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:text] Want active time in 573160.87min. Remaining retry interval: 0.000000min.
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:text] Unscheduling wanted job
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 Df timed[593:505a1] [com.apple.timed:data] cmd,SYNC,rtc_s,526846.445220000,unc_s,0.000500000,mach,498373419553
2023-11-26 13:14:16.718 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:text] Scheduling wanted job
2022-10-16 10:31:42.020 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.settimeofday:] settimeofday({0x634bc16e,0x493f}) == 0
2022-10-16 10:31:42.020 Df timed[593:58633] [com.apple.timed:text] Setting system time to Sun Oct 16 10:31:42 2022 from TMTimeSynthesizer


If I set the time manually and do the same (connected to the power adapter or not) everything works fine (no wrong time after sleep).

Nov 26, 2023 6:17 AM in response to ishigami

Interesting addition: After switching set date and time automatically and setting the correct date and time manually turning on set date and time automatically sets date and time to the wrong date and time again. The "funny" thing is that setting date and time to the correctly received date and time via NTP fails afterwards.


2023-11-26 15:07:03.825 Df timed[593:6df1b] [com.apple.timed:data] cmd,auto_time,src,(null),rtc_s,533613.791000000,enabled,1
2023-11-26 15:07:03.825 Df timed[593:6df1b] [com.apple.timed:text] Received automatic time enabled
2023-11-26 15:07:03.826 Df timed[593:6df1b] [com.apple.timed:text] TDTF,WrongPredictState,Current,rtc,34914285.529,utc,721987843.046,sf,0.99995644,utcStd,0.00573306,sfStd,0.00000597,PredictState,rtc,533613.792,utc,687608669.070,sf,0.99995644,utcStd,19406.96298220,sfStd,0.00097766,dRtc,-34380671.737,dUtc,-34379173.976,ddtc,1497.761,lastRtc,34914285.529,rtc,34914285.529
2023-11-26 15:07:03.826 Df timed[593:6df1b] [com.apple.timed:text] Want active time in -infmin. Remaining retry interval: 0.000000min.
2023-11-26 15:07:03.826 Df timed[593:73405] [com.apple.timed:data] cmd,SYNC,rtc_s,533613.792358000,unc_s,0.000500000,mach,626426408888
2023-11-26 15:07:03.827 Df timed[593:6df1b] [com.apple.settimeofday:] settimeofday({0x634bdbdd,0x113d8}) == 0
2023-11-26 15:07:03.827 Df timed[593:6df1b] [com.apple.timed:text] Setting system time to Sun Oct 16 12:24:29 2022 from TMTimeSynthesizer
[...]
2022-10-16 12:24:29.152 Df timed[593:73405] [com.apple.timed:text] Received time Sun Nov 26 15:07:03 2023±0.01 from "NTP"
2022-10-16 12:24:29.152 Df timed[593:73405] [com.apple.timed:data] cmd,T,src,NTP,rtc_s,533613.874679250,rtc_unc_s,0.000000000,t_s,722700423.866983414,unc_s,0.007922838,mach,626428384414
2022-10-16 12:24:29.152 Df timed[593:73405] [com.apple.timed:data] TDTF,RtcRollBack,rtc,533613.874679,utc,722700423.866983,unc,0.007923,source,NTP,_rtc,34914285.529286
2022-10-16 12:24:29.152 E  timed[593:73405] [com.apple.timed:text] TDTF unhandled synthesizer error: 3
2022-10-16 12:24:29.152 Df timed[593:73405] [com.apple.timed:text] TDTF,WrongPredictState,Current,rtc,34914285.529,utc,721987843.046,sf,0.99995644,utcStd,0.00573306,sfStd,0.00000597,PredictState,rtc,533613.875,utc,687608669.153,sf,0.99995644,utcStd,19406.96291215,sfStd,0.00097766,dRtc,-34380671.654,dUtc,-34379173.893,ddtc,1497.761,lastRtc,34914285.529,rtc,34914285.529
2022-10-16 12:24:29.152 Df timed[593:73405] [com.apple.timed:data] cmd,checkActiveTimeSourceRequired,rtc_s,533613.875045,bb_want_unc_s,inf,want_unc_s,0.050000,bb_want_rtc_s,inf,want_rtc_s,34916498.876520

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