Australian daylight savings time wrong under Mac OS X 10.7

Unknown Admin wrote:

you need to have location services turned on. then go to date and time and make it automatically find your location.

This thread is well over a year old. I daresay the OP either solved the problem or upgraded to ML.

Cheers

Pete

Make sure your location and Time Zone settings are correct. In particular, apparently there are three Time Zone settings available for Australia. That can be set in System Preferences > Date & Time > Time Zone.

The only other thing I can suggest is to try using a different Time server.

Odd.

Until someone comes along with a better solution, as a workaround you could reset the Time Zone setting to one zone to the East of yours. That should bump the displayed hour up one hour.

Whereabouts are you in Australia? My computer has always set itself ok, but I know a couple of friends, especially up north that have had trouble.

markpb91 wrote:

Coffs Harbour, northern NSW along the coast. So I'm on Sydney AES time.

Beautiful part of the world! I have under Date and Time in System Preference marked as such

Date and Time South Asia (have set automatically unticked)

Then Time Zone set for Australian Eastern Daylight saving time

Melbourne - Australia (I'm in Ballarat)

With set time automatically up the top unticked

They are the settings I have always used and my computers have always reverted to and from Daylight savings (except of course I'm in Queensland, Then I have to reset my location and remember to set it back.

Other than that if may come down to trashing your pref file for date and time.

Good Luck

The time server has nothing to do with it. Time servers always send UTC. It is up to the computer's OS to convert that to local time.

Did you get this problem fixed?

I'm a couple of hours west of Coffs and have the exact same problem. Although I have noticed that with the manual time and date settings, all the mail i recieve is an hour behind.. I'm just using the mail app, with an exchange server.. Yet all the mail on my iPhone 4S, and webmail when viewed on the computer are the correct time.

I'm in Coffs too and have the same problem. Apple seems to place Coffs in the same time zone as Brissie for some reason. As a work around until they sort it out, I just set my time zone to Sydney.

you need to have location services turned on. then go to date and time and make it automatically find your location.