Mavericks 10.9.5, on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro, Unibody.
This function used to work well for me - whatever Location services determined to be my current location would make the Time Zone change in the Date/Time PrefPane.
Now it does not. If I turn off the function, and switch it on, Date/Time successfully receives my current location, but the Time Zone will not move accordingly.
I decided to look in Console, system.log, and found the following:
First, it reported this sequence twice:
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh com.apple.systemadministration.writeconfig[104]: ### Restricted client at path /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DateAndTime.prefPane/Contents/Resources/TimeZone.prefPane/Contents/Resources/TimeZoneAdminTool
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh com.apple.systemadministration.writeconfig[104]: Warning: Exception caught during decoding of received message, dropping incoming message.
Exception: <NSXPCDecoder: 0x7f8fde008600> received a message that is not in the interface of the local object (setMachineDictionary:forKey:inDomain:authorization:result, dropping.
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh TimeZoneAdminTool[431]: ### syncProxyWithSemaphore error:Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application.
On the third attempt, it dropped the entry ending in "Couldn't communicate with a helper application", but added the following:
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh com.apple.preference.datetime.remoteservice[423]: !!! ASSERT FAILURE: Selected city on the map is different than what we expect to be selected !!!
I've done a lot of searching for anything about TimeZoneAdminTool, and NSXPCDecoder. Haven't really seen much.
Thanks for looking
This function used to work well for me - whatever Location services determined to be my current location would make the Time Zone change in the Date/Time PrefPane.
Now it does not. If I turn off the function, and switch it on, Date/Time successfully receives my current location, but the Time Zone will not move accordingly.
I decided to look in Console, system.log, and found the following:
First, it reported this sequence twice:
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh com.apple.systemadministration.writeconfig[104]: ### Restricted client at path /System/Library/PreferencePanes/DateAndTime.prefPane/Contents/Resources/TimeZone.prefPane/Contents/Resources/TimeZoneAdminTool
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh com.apple.systemadministration.writeconfig[104]: Warning: Exception caught during decoding of received message, dropping incoming message.
Exception: <NSXPCDecoder: 0x7f8fde008600> received a message that is not in the interface of the local object (setMachineDictionary:forKey:inDomain:authorization:result, dropping.
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh TimeZoneAdminTool[431]: ### syncProxyWithSemaphore error:Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application.
On the third attempt, it dropped the entry ending in "Couldn't communicate with a helper application", but added the following:
Jul 13 22:50:14 macintosh com.apple.preference.datetime.remoteservice[423]: !!! ASSERT FAILURE: Selected city on the map is different than what we expect to be selected !!!
I've done a lot of searching for anything about TimeZoneAdminTool, and NSXPCDecoder. Haven't really seen much.
Thanks for looking
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