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Re: PowerBook G4 stuck in Greenwich Mean Time

Title: Re: PowerBook G4 stuck in Greenwich Mean Time
I found that this can happen if you change the default UMASK on the system. This is one of the reasons we do not change the UMASK as part of our security config. This is also why I had it pulled from the CIS benchmark for Tiger.


- Charles


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Charles Heizer, ACSA
Systems Management Solutions Group
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
email: email@hidden
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On 1/7/08 10:28 PM, "Tim Hannon" <email@hidden> wrote:

Hello All,
I'm not sure what terminology to use to describe the problem so
please read what I'm trying to explain.

I have a user with a 1.6 Ghz PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11.
It's clock displays an inaccurate time. The PowerBook displays GMT
(Greenwich Mean Time) while the laptop should display Pacific Time.
The cause is easy to identify but I'm unclear how I can go about
fixing the problem.

In Date & Time System Preferences there is no value listed next to
Time Zone. It's just blank.
The value listed next to Closest City is (GMT). When I click on the
arrow to see a list of cities the list is empty.

What causes this list to be empty and how can I fix it?

I thought Date & Time might populate this list based on zoneinfo
datafiles so I checked /usr/share/zoneinfo and all of the datafiles
for America are present.

I reinstalled the 10.4.11 Combo update on a whim. This didn't help.

I'm not sure if this behavior could be caused by a damaged .plist or
damaged Date & Time System Preference pane.

Has anybody seen this before or have any suggestions?

I couldn't find any mention of this problem when I searched Apple's
OS X Discussion Forums or other such sites.

I didn't think to login to another user account but I should try this
to determine if the problem is user-specific or system-wide

Thanks --Tim


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