Help, Help, I'm stuck in 1969!

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majormattmajormatt
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Yesterday it was good 'ol 2002, however, upon waking up, my Mac has travelled back in time. My Mac always kept perfect time and I have no reason to doubt it's not 1969. I surmise that the battery died, without the battery keeping the flux time circuitry in line, it has travelled backward in time to a set date. Also, my internet connection must be going through a temporal router, which allows me to talk to the future.



Now I must venture out and purchase a new battery to allow me to return to the future, but where, o where?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    the pie manthe pie man Posts: 425member
    Are you using OS X?



    I had that problem with my Dual 500 for the longest time - it is (was?) a known problem with Duals at one point in X.



    The recommended solution (this was over a year ago) was to sync to a network time server - I happen to be on DSL so I did that and it solved my problems.



    I would hope that they resolved the issue at some point after I started using the time server - but I have just left it set up like that from that time forward...



    If you are using X I would recommend looking through the KBase articles (if you can find anything of any value - I don't find the system very helpful).



    Hope that helps...
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    take advantage if you can, baby... wear something shagadelic and try to score some hoffman



    actually, more than one bug generates this symptom.



    some ibooks had a wacom driver conflict which would reset their clocks... more info on which model, which os version, and any miscellaneous extras would help troubleshoot both at <a href="http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/query?val=clock+resets&nodes=&type=smartSearch&dat eModified=&geography=" target="_blank">apple's tech info library</a> and here



    [ 07-29-2002: Message edited by: curiousuburb ]</p>
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    dobbydobby Posts: 797member
    This is a current quirk of the system.

    We use NTP and still get the problem.



    Just change the date/time and wait for the bug fix or 10.2 whichever comes first (except that 10.2 costs).



    Dobby.
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    pevepeve Posts: 518member
    whats wrong with 1969?



    -first man on moon

    -really cool cars

    -loads of dope

    -my birth



    ...and if you wait a couple of years you can buy yourself into apple.

    what am i talking about?!? you could start the revolution by your own!
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13486&db=macos"; target="_blank">http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13486&db=macos</a>;



    here's an app that will auto update your machine to the right date.



    thought of you when i saw this at versiontracker.com
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