LKBEN11713: How to set date and time from the command or terminal on MacOS?
Symptom
After you drained your battery completely, your date and time is set incorrect.
Cause
This is by design.
Solution
When you drained your battery completely, your Mac can loose its date and time setting. The "set automatically" will not work when the difference is to big. Therefor you ony have two possibilities to correct the situation.
- Change the date and time setting to manually. System Settings -> General -> Date & Time.
- Change the setting via the terminal with sudo rights.
sudo sntp -sS time.apple.com
Hope this helps
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Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.
Latest update: 26/04/2024