Apple Mac Time Zone Changing
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Why does Mac OSX detect timezones and change them automatically? It doesn't have GPS or a cell service so it has no way to know where I am. I just realized that I've been an hour off all day long because the Mac decided that I was one time zone west of where I really am!!! Why would they do that? What possible benefit is there to just guessing and changing the set time?
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I turned that feature off, but why would such a bad idea that so clearly can't work reliably be on by default?
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It's based on your Public IP, which isn't that accurate. I live in richmond,va according to my IP address.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.
That's what I'm saying.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.
That's what I'm saying.
I probably worded something incorrectly but that's what I was trying to say.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
Nope, no satellite here.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.
Which is Granada.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.
That's what I'm saying.
Nearly any sat link for this part of the world shows up as Belgium. I'm not on a sat, if I was, that's where it would likely terminate.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's based on your Public IP.
Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.
I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.
Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.
It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.
That's what I'm saying.
Nearly any sat link for this part of the world shows up as Belgium. I'm not on a sat, if I was, that's where it would likely terminate.
Ok.
