MacBook Pro location services/time zone confusion

alysounmahoney wrote:

I have a 2019 MacBook Pro running Sequoia 15.5. I am on eastern time, but all of a sudden today, my MacBook thinks I'm on central time. I last traveled two weeks ago, within the same time zone, and my last travel outside this time zone was a month ago to pacific time. Restarting my MacBook did not fix the problem.

I can go to System Settings --> Date and Time to manually change the time, but this causes other problems.

I went to System Settings --> Privacy --> Location to see if there was something to reset there, but there's nothing obvious.

what other problems...? I would do what works.

If Automatic is not working, turning it off and manually setting is an option(?)

You can try from the Terminal.app copy & paste:

sudo rm /var/db/timed/com.apple.timed.plist

this will remove the corrupt plist.

(note—your psswd will not echo on screen type it in anyway, use the enter\return key to proceed. Quit Terminal.)

Reboot if necessary and compare your results.

What do you see regarding Location?

Does the "closest city" you see in System Settings match the reality of where you are?

Also: Are you connected to Wifi?

Your mac tries to determine your location by the available Wifi networks, so even if you are connecting via Ethernet, you should still keep Wifi turned on.