nondeterministic . net

Israel has no fixed system for determining when daylight savings time starts and ends in the country. Go them. In a problem whose cause I can only assume is rooted in this essential uncertainty, my computer is displaying the incorrect time. Sort of. You see, with the time zone set to IST, and the system set to synch with Apple’s time server, the time control panel happily displays the correct time. date in the terminal is equally correct. The time in the “digital clock” in the menu bar at the top of the screen, however, is ahead by one hour. This clock has the remarkable ability to appear in many different forms, however, such as in a separate window, or with an analog display. And even more remarkably, it displays the correct time with any setting other than as a digital clock in the menu bar! Analog in the menu bar? 18:05. Digital in a window? 18:05. But digital menu bar, my configuration of choice, the default configuration, a configuration used by nearly every OS X user out there? 19:05. I have confirmed that other Israeli Mac users (all two or three of them) seem to have this same problem, but I haven’t yet found anything about a solution. In the worst case, hopefully the US changeover or some similar event will kick things back into whack. Otherwise I’m going to have to start hacking zoneinfo files or something equally obscure. Go me.

maxg

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