At 9:29 PM -0500 10/11/2011, Carrie wrote:
I'm wanting to know if there is any danger in setting the system
date/time to a prior date. Specifically in Snow Leopard.
No problemo.
But keep in mind that OS X likes to run the network time daemon, to
sync its clock with the atomics out on the 'net. So be sure to
disable that in the system prefs.
We are dealing with some software digital certificate expiration
issues. Until the developer gets them fixed, the only way we can
use the software is to set the date/time preferences to a date
before the certificate expired.
Some users are concerned that this will spell catastrophe for their
systems because "Unix/Linux based things don't like haivng their
dates messed with" (their wording, not mine).
I maintain that the only things that would be affected are the
date/time stamp on files they save while the settings are changed,
possibly any iCal events created during the change (which can be
overwritten by the user), and that if they use Time Machine the
backups might not be dated correctly (and for that reason I've
suggested they shut Time Machine off while their date is changed).
Yea. Turn off Time Machine and anything else that does things based
on a file's time stamps.
- Dan.
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