I just noticed that my digital clock, with seconds, display in the upper right corner of my Leopard Mac screen is not advancing. An unrelated clock in my office SPOKE the time as 12:55pm and I realized that my Mac was displaying 12:17pm. I assumed the unrelated clock must certainly be wrong because I have been intending on replacing its batteries for months now.
When I checked my cell phone clock it became clear that my Mac clock is indeed displaying 12:17pm when it is actually 12:55pm. I clicked on the clock to open the "drop down menu" and the time immediately updated to the correct time. But it is still not advancing; it will only update when I click on it.
It gets weirder; obviously I like talking clocks so I have my Mac set to speak the time every 1/2 hour. DESPITE the fact that my Mac's clock display is not advancing my Mac SPOKE the time correctly at 1pm while the clock display was showing 12:22pm.
But wait; it gets still weirder. I included a time display, with seconds, in a website that I am involved in the development of. The time display on that website simply displays the time based on the user's computer, in this case my Mac. Since I was online anyway, of course, I decided to navigate to a page of the website that displays the time taken from the user's, in this case my, computer. ! The website time display correctly advances with seconds and all.
As a recent switcher to Mac I thought I was leaving the need to reboot when the computer has been on a long time behind with my Windows machine. Well, my Mac has been on without a restart/reboot for almost 9 days and I am pretty certain that its time display will start functioning properly again once I reboot/restart. But WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?
CAN anyone explain?
It is a 4gb 250gb 2.2ghz Leopard Mac and I have 3 Opera windows open with a total of 24 tabs open between them. I have a second monitor running and I have TextWrangler running with about 40 separate text documents open. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 is running hidden, besides my third party Firewall and Antivirus.
I will save all the text documents I have open and restart my Mac. Again, I am pretty certain the time issue will not manifest once I restart, but I intend to update this post once I do so. But WHY does this happen?
UPDATE: When I heard the sounds of my "Time Machine" backup drive I looked at the "Time Machine" icon in the upper right of my Mac screen. The backup was successful, BUT just like the clock display, the "Time Machine" icon did not activate.
As I suspected it would, after shutting down and restarting the machine the clock is now displaying properly.
Can anyone explain to me what caused the issues I described?
When I checked my cell phone clock it became clear that my Mac clock is indeed displaying 12:17pm when it is actually 12:55pm. I clicked on the clock to open the "drop down menu" and the time immediately updated to the correct time. But it is still not advancing; it will only update when I click on it.
It gets weirder; obviously I like talking clocks so I have my Mac set to speak the time every 1/2 hour. DESPITE the fact that my Mac's clock display is not advancing my Mac SPOKE the time correctly at 1pm while the clock display was showing 12:22pm.
But wait; it gets still weirder. I included a time display, with seconds, in a website that I am involved in the development of. The time display on that website simply displays the time based on the user's computer, in this case my Mac. Since I was online anyway, of course, I decided to navigate to a page of the website that displays the time taken from the user's, in this case my, computer. ! The website time display correctly advances with seconds and all.
As a recent switcher to Mac I thought I was leaving the need to reboot when the computer has been on a long time behind with my Windows machine. Well, my Mac has been on without a restart/reboot for almost 9 days and I am pretty certain that its time display will start functioning properly again once I reboot/restart. But WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?
CAN anyone explain?
It is a 4gb 250gb 2.2ghz Leopard Mac and I have 3 Opera windows open with a total of 24 tabs open between them. I have a second monitor running and I have TextWrangler running with about 40 separate text documents open. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 is running hidden, besides my third party Firewall and Antivirus.
I will save all the text documents I have open and restart my Mac. Again, I am pretty certain the time issue will not manifest once I restart, but I intend to update this post once I do so. But WHY does this happen?
UPDATE: When I heard the sounds of my "Time Machine" backup drive I looked at the "Time Machine" icon in the upper right of my Mac screen. The backup was successful, BUT just like the clock display, the "Time Machine" icon did not activate.
As I suspected it would, after shutting down and restarting the machine the clock is now displaying properly.
Can anyone explain to me what caused the issues I described?