RE: setting time / date from terminal

2020-02-10 Thread Simon A Fogarty
a job recovering data off them when you need to use a usb flash drive as a back up device. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 1:14 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: setting time / date from terminal Don't forg

RE: setting time / date from terminal

2020-02-10 Thread Simon A Fogarty
' via MacVisionaries Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2020 4:45 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: setting time / date from terminal Hi Simon, Good instructions at this link: http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/04/set-system-time-mac-os-x-command-line/ Basically, it depends on whether or not you h

Re: setting time / date from terminal

2020-02-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Don't forget to turn off any NTP stuff then… Or if you are using NTP, but the clock is too far off for an initial set, then you should be able to use ntpdate to set the clock based off of a NTP server. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 9, 2020, at 4:58 AM, Simon A

Re: setting time / date from terminal

2020-02-10 Thread Brad Snyder
Thanks Tim. This is a nice refresher. It has been a long time since I’ve used a Unix command line for this kind of thing. - Brad - On Feb 10, 2020, at 09:44, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi Simon, Good instructions at this link: http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/04/set-system-time-ma

Re: setting time / date from terminal

2020-02-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi Simon, Good instructions at this link: http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/04/set-system-time-mac-os-x-command-line/ Basically, it depends on whether or not you have access to, or wish to use, an NTP service, or if you wish to set the date/time manually. ntpdate "ntpdate" is the command for the ti