Australian daylight savings time wrong under Mac OS X 10.7

The 'set date and time automatically' option displays the wrong time under Mac OS X 10.7 in Australia. I use Apple Asia (time.asia.apple.com) and I don't think it accounts for daylight savings time. I know I have the option the set the time manually, so it is not a large problem, However I'm just raising the issue. The time currently in Australia is 5:45pm and my computer running Lion displays 4:45pm. My iPhone running iOS 5 has no issues and displays the right time.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), MacBookPro6,2

Posted on Nov 27, 2011 10:47 PM

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jlowgren

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Oct 6, 2013 4:24 PM in response to markpb91

It happens because if you are in northern NSW, and OSX picks up Brisbane as the closest city, and QLD has no daylight saving.

To fix it, untick 'Set timezone automatically based on location' and set the location manually to Sydney. That fixes it.

bresq

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Oct 7, 2013 2:50 PM in response to markpb91

I'm in Coffs and having the same problem. Funnily enough if I set my time zone pref to Lismore it changes to correct time. I guess Coffs falls into 'beautiful one day, perfect the next' zone.

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Australian daylight savings time wrong under Mac OS X 10.7