Since Jaguar was left out of Apple's Daylight Savings Time software updates is there a way to update the time on tons of iMacs on a college network? These iMacs are running 10.2.8 and do not have enough ram to support upgrading the operating system past Jaguar.
Is there a network application or trick that will update all the Date and Time preferences together instead of going to each iMac and doing it manually?
I already checked Apple's site and their recommendation is to do it manually on each mac.
Thanks.
Are the machines set to sync to a time server? If so, then you don't need to do anything; they'll resync on their own and pick up the correct time. If they're not set to sync, then each machine is going to need to be updated by hand.
there is a tool for it here
The Jaguar DST Update tool
BTW what are the specs of those iMac's
About half and half of 350mhz Indigo's and 500mhz Snow's. Unfortunately they only upgrade one mac at a time when the hard drives die or other internal components.
I thought it didn't matter what time server they are synced to, without the DST update, the clocks would still be wrong. Isn't that why Apple created the updates for Panther and Tiger?
I would assume they created the update for those users who don't use server time syncing. But I don't know for sure, I didn't program OS X, so I don't know if they wrote the time systems correctly or not.
I tried running this on my WS, but it requires sudo, and for some reason, sudo is not working, no matter how many times I reinstall.
any thoughts? no gui program?
-digital
Using a time server doesn't help you. NTP network time is based on UTC. Adjusting for local timezone is the host's responsibility. Thus you still need daylight savings updates for your OS. All NTP will do if you don't have them is continue to ensure that your machine is *exactly* an hour off.
(I've had to explain this *so* many times at work recently. "All our FreeBSD machines use NTP. So we don't need to patch them, right?". "Uhm, no. We do.")
--Peace
humm is there a way to contact the developer who made that to ask his opinion and maybe help.
it was actually having a problem with any shell script or terminal command that required the sudo handle. apparently, something got messed up in the install. it was not displaying the "last login" and "welcome to darwin" bits as well. a reinstall fixed it, and now it works fine.
-digital