I've got a G3 iBook with 10.4.11 (8S165) that was constantly out of sync with time even though the preference "Set date & time automatically" option was selected.
I searched Google and the #1 hit was this Apple knowledge base article (Last Modified: May 12, 2006): <http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24116?viewlocale=en_US> I attempted to follow the Terminal instructions exactly to fix this issue, but it appeared the article has errors, which I reported to Apple, hopefully resulting in a new updated document soon? This is why I included the (Last Modified: May 12, 2006), so that a possibly corrected article could be distinguished from the original that I think is in error? There were two problems I saw. The first was a minor typo in instruction #6 where the word "lot" should be "to". The second was in instruction #10, the line that reads: "Change the line near the end of this file, which starts with "ntpd - f", so that it reads:". My file had no line that started with "ntpd -f". The only line that seemed correct started "ntpd -c". I inferred that there was likely a single letter error, f for c, and replaced the line starting "ntpd -c" with the new replacement line starting with "ntpd -f" and followed the remaining instructions. Terminal produced a bunch of lines saying that the time synchronization had succeeded, so I'm assuming I was correct about the error(s) in the Apple document? I filed a report with Apple about the errors in the document. I am more concerned that this issue with time synchronization wasn't fixed in an update. After all, 10.4.11 was released November 14, 2007. This article was written 18 months before when OS 10.4.6 was current. The fact that I was having issues in 10.4.11 seems to indicate that the problem was not corrected? If it was corrected, my assumption of errors in the document may be wrong, but the correction they used would be different than the correction offered in the document, and evidently didn't work since my time was never able to sync, and now appears to be fixed by following slightly altered instructions. Time synchronization is REALLY IMPORTANT, and the need to manually repair this in 10.4.11 seems totally wrong to me. I know mine wasn't working in 10.4.11. It appears to be fixed now, but this seems lame. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
