I migrated from mac os Tiger to Leopard now I’m stuck in timezone GMT what to do?
So I recently received a new laptop and with that migrated from mac os Tiger to Leopard, everything went extremely well and fast but then someone pointed out that even though the time in my menu was correct, the timestamp for my mails and files was not. I tried changing the timezone in Date & Time settings but that would not stick.
I googled and shortly found a very lengthy and to me confusing post explaining the problem: Tiger stores the time settings in a folder whereas Leopard seems to use a symlink.
The very short instructions to fix this:
- Start terminal
- Type: sudo rm -rf /private/etc/localtime/ (you may need to type your password)
- Check for errors, if none close your terminal
- Go to Date & Time settings, choose your timezone and tick the box “set date & time automatically”.
- Check if the time is correct and close Date & Time settings.
- Reboot
Disclaimer: This worked for me, it might not work for you. If you are not sure you know what you’re doing, at least make sure you have a backup before trying!