unable to determine current location at this time

[DisplacedMic]

Macbook Al 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM
OSX 10.6.8

Hello,
All of a suddent my MB refuses to come out of Cupertino time so my computer is telling me it's 3 hours earlier than it actually is here on the East coast. I thought maybe this was an update-related issue as I had been ignoring the 10.6.8 update for a few days - but nope, still having the same problem.

Internet is working fine but when I go into SysPrefs for Date&Time it won't connect. So i googled the problem and was told to delete the timezone plist but i can find no such file in my library preferences.

Rebooting, updating, and turning off firewall on my router isn't helping.

any ideas?
thanks!

 

[DisplacedMic]

quick update: Windows XP running on VMware is reporting the time just fine on the same machine so it seems to be an OSX-specific issue. this is annoying me to know end but definitely not worth a trip to the "genius bar"

any insight at all would be great

 

[ArizonaLoco]

quick update: Windows XP running on VMware is reporting the time just fine on the same machine so it seems to be an OSX-specific issue. this is annoying me to know end but definitely not worth a trip to the "genius bar"

any insight at all would be great

This answer summed it up for me. I'm experiencing the same issue with OS X Lion Server but not VMWare.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...lly-using-current-location-is-not-working-why

"Apple uses one or more databases (I don't know how many) to map your ISP internet connection to a location in the world.

If you use the network utility to traceroute to that time server, you will see all the routers between you and that apple server. This software does the same thing and reports the hops - if Apple knows where any of the routers close to your mac are located, it will update the location. What it's telling you is it can't pin down where you are based on this information only.

If you can try connecting to a different network or a public network it might be more likely to know where you are. Many business internet connections pool the public internet access and the database is told to ignore that since the traffic isn't coming to apple close to your physical location.

Are you on a home network? Can you call your ISP to see if they allow or prevent location of their customers? It's a problem with the people supplying you with internet and not anything on your computer, so you can't do anything directly to correct it other than change your ISP or figure out how to get it mapped."

 

[ljonesj]

well if it bothers you set time zone manually personally i rather do that way myself i hate a lot of let me do this for you stuff