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Re: Setting The System Date/Time
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Re: Setting The System Date/Time


  • Subject: Re: Setting The System Date/Time
  • From: Drarok Ithaqua <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:18:38 +0100

Yes, I fully expected to have to authenticate, but I didn't expect the API to be deprecated.

On 22 Aug 2006, at 12:06 am, John Stiles wrote:

Well, I notice that:

Special Considerations

Only the root user can set the time in Mac OS X.

So at the very least you'd need to authenticate to do this. Seems like a hassle :| And what if the user has set an NTP server...?
Actually, I can see the need to do this, but I can also see a bunch of reasons not to do this :)



On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Drarok Ithaqua wrote:

I'm writing an app that would benefit from being able to change the system date/time, but it seems that we as cocoa programmers aren't meant to do this any more...
From the docs ( http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/ Reference/Date_Time_an_nt_Utilities/DeprecationAppendix/ AppendixADeprecatedAPI.html#//apple_ref/c/func/SetDateTime )


SetDateTime
Changes the date-time information stored by the system to the specified value, expressed as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight, January 1, 1904. (Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.4. There is no replacement.)



SetTime
Changes the date-time information in the system to the specified value, expressed as a date and time. (Deprecated in Mac OS X v10.4. There is no replacement.)


As these have no replacements, I am led to believe that I shouldn't be doing this. Am I right?
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