Moving the System Clock

How do you change the position of the system clock in the menu bar? For some reason, perhaps I did it inadvertently, the system clock is now second to last on my menu bar. The battery meter is the last item. I have googled this issue and I can't seem to find any kind of a fix.

Hold the Apple button and the drag it around the menu bar.

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I am actually the user. A game developer told me to do this in order to play their game temporarily because their update had a glitch. Their official response to their game forums was change date and play through the weekend until they could apply a patch. Well, in turn it messed up my daughters game because her game is a progression style game which looks at the clock. I need something somewhere that says, tampering with the clock is not approved. Only way to bring my daughters game back to current progression is to buy "diamonds" because it is a "freemium" type game. Developer that told me to change clock basically told me "tough luck, go away" andi want to take them to court for about 800$ to buy appropriate amount of diamonds.

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hi There,
I need to set the system time on a pure java application.
what is the proper way to do so? (I can't find any system property which corresponds to the system clock).
if it's platform dependent , then I need to do so on win2000 and on linux RH.
thanks

I don't know about Windows but on RedHat, I would use the date command. Check the man pages for date and look at the -s or --set options. Do a Runtime.exec to execute that.
Of course, doing the in Java is not the best option. If you are trying to synchronized clocks on Windows and Linux systems, I would use some freely available Network Time Protocol programs. RedHat has a free NTP daemon available as an RPM in the standard distribution. For Windows, theres a free program called "Net Time" that runs as a service. Both can act as clients and servers.

Reseting the system clock

After a power surge, I had to replace my motherboard. Now every time I turn on my computer, I get a message that my clock is set to before 2001 causing applications to behave irradically. I change the clock in the time and date settings in system prefs, but once I restart, the clock reverts to the "pre 2001" setting. I was told I need to reset the system clock. Can anyone advise?

lubemupski, Welcome to the discussion area!
There is a small battery on the motherboard called a PRAM battery. It sounds like your PRAM battery has failed and needs to be replaced.

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I need to move my entire system folder (OS, Apps, etc) over to a new internal hard-drive. How can this be accomplished? Can I simply duplicate the system folder, move it to the new drive, and set it as the startup disk?
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Hi David,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
No, you cannot drag&drop copy MacOS X. You have to use a backup utility such as Carbon Copy Cloner or Synchronize! X Plus.
MacOS X consists of more then 30,000 files and folders, most invisible and many linked to each other.

Have a compaq nc6320 laptop the system clock is set to 6/3/9999

why can't I seem to change the clock on this laptop couldnt find in bois where to set bois clock and tgried to change in windows 7 and it will not change

I am not a Mac user, but have multiple versions and profiles of Firefox. I note you ask about Macs, but have system details showing as Windows 7.
I can only speak from a PC perspective, but no doubt you can sort it out yourself. It is down to the OS which browser is the default, although firefox has the option to check and reset that at startup.
No doubt if I delved into the registry I could find how it sets the default browser, but in practical terms what I do is allow the OS to set itself up.
# Choose any other alternative browser such as IE, make that the default, and allow that to take effect.
#Then deselect IE as default browser checking.
#Now start up the chosen version of Firefox, use Firefox's options to set that as default browser. (Options -> advanced -> general system defaults )
It works, although some applications may choose IE regardless.
*You may be interested in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser
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How get the system clock synced?

I messed up the clock sync, because I specified ntp-clock. At the moment the clock is 10 min faster on FI-B (Show clock). I assume this is why I no longer can log into UCSM?
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this is status now. I hope this is not going to cause problems later, or is causing the other problems I do have:
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FI6120XP-B(local-mgmt)#
FI6120XP-B(local-mgmt)# show clock
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How do I make the system clock visible on all screens - including when I am in full screen mode

New to the Mac OS . . . I want a clock that persists. Yes I can mouse near the top and see the clock but I have to move the cursor each time I want to see the clock.
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Is Mail.app one of the "erratic" behavior apps with a reset system clock?

I am hoping someone can help with a fine detail of mail.app (v2.1.3) behavior.
I had an incident where an iMac sent out 200+ smtp hits a minute and was tossed of the network for presumed zombie spaming.
I think I have actually tracked the problem to an unfortunate conjunction of circumstances that is actually innocent (if still annoying)
Let me set up the story:
1. This is a common use computer, so Mail is not configured (except that it is --I'll get to that in a moment) and
2. Safari will invoke Mail when you click on an "email link"
Mostly everyone just quits mail if they goof and click an email link.
BUT some time ago at least one person invoked Mail and composed a message. This message, naturally, remained in the outbox ever since. That person learned that they can't send email that way, so ever since they just cmd-Q Mail.
BUT Before this person learned, they walked through the mail-config and told mail to try hitting smtp.mac.com:"nonExistantUser".
So that covers the lead-up. Two days ago, mail was invoked via a Safari link, BUT it wasn't quit, it was sent to the background.
Where it undoubtedly tried to send the outbox repeatedly until it was kicked off the network.
Here is what I don't understand:
Under this scenario of a mis-configured .mac address, will mail repeatedly try and fail to smtp at the maximum possible rate?
OR
Is the one other factor I am about to describe responsible?
The one other factor:
The clock battery is dead and there was a power failure at 4am that day.
The system clock reset to 1969.
Of course, nobody reset it.
Is mail.app one of the apps that the finder message warns "may behave erratically"?
(a GROSS simplification) does it have a bit of code like:
1 check time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
check newest-item-in-outbox
if newest-item more recent then last-send-attempt
do send-mail and record time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
and go to 1
else wait X minutes and go to 1
which, if the clock was mis-set to 1969 would always record a last-send-attempt prior to anything in the outbox and trigger a send loop.
Does anyone know if either Mail is tenacious about sending to a bad .mac address, or gets ridiculous under this circumstance for bad-clock-set?
Marc

I am hoping someone can help with a fine detail of mail.app (v2.1.3) behavior.
I had an incident where an iMac sent out 200+ smtp hits a minute and was tossed of the network for presumed zombie spaming.
I think I have actually tracked the problem to an unfortunate conjunction of circumstances that is actually innocent (if still annoying)
Let me set up the story:
1. This is a common use computer, so Mail is not configured (except that it is --I'll get to that in a moment) and
2. Safari will invoke Mail when you click on an "email link"
Mostly everyone just quits mail if they goof and click an email link.
BUT some time ago at least one person invoked Mail and composed a message. This message, naturally, remained in the outbox ever since. That person learned that they can't send email that way, so ever since they just cmd-Q Mail.
BUT Before this person learned, they walked through the mail-config and told mail to try hitting smtp.mac.com:"nonExistantUser".
So that covers the lead-up. Two days ago, mail was invoked via a Safari link, BUT it wasn't quit, it was sent to the background.
Where it undoubtedly tried to send the outbox repeatedly until it was kicked off the network.
Here is what I don't understand:
Under this scenario of a mis-configured .mac address, will mail repeatedly try and fail to smtp at the maximum possible rate?
OR
Is the one other factor I am about to describe responsible?
The one other factor:
The clock battery is dead and there was a power failure at 4am that day.
The system clock reset to 1969.
Of course, nobody reset it.
Is mail.app one of the apps that the finder message warns "may behave erratically"?
(a GROSS simplification) does it have a bit of code like:
1 check time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
check newest-item-in-outbox
if newest-item more recent then last-send-attempt
do send-mail and record time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
and go to 1
else wait X minutes and go to 1
which, if the clock was mis-set to 1969 would always record a last-send-attempt prior to anything in the outbox and trigger a send loop.
Does anyone know if either Mail is tenacious about sending to a bad .mac address, or gets ridiculous under this circumstance for bad-clock-set?
Marc

ICal, Mail and Finder times all stuck since upgrade! System clock O.K.

Very strange problem:
All of my calendar event times (in iCal), email message receipt times (in Mail), and file modification/creation times (in Finder) are listed as some time between 7:00-7:59 AM or PM, regardless of time of day! My system clock (as it appears in the menu bar) is fine!
More details:
iCal: the events still look like they're at the right times, i.e. the blocks are in the right places, with the correct spacing, etc etc, they are just labeled with times between 7:00-7:59 AM/PM. Similarly, alarms go off at the correct time. Also, in the day or week listing, the column on the left which is supposed to show times instead just says "Sat" for all times, except "Noon" (at noon).
This is continuous since upgrading to snow leopard a couple weeks ago. Seemingly no other problems besides this.
I don't know much about the OS, but I don't understand how the system clock (in the menu bar) could be fine, but every other sign of time-keeping is completely off. I just its just something about the labeling of times, instead of the actual record of them?!
I have screen shots of the problems if that might help clarify (apparently I can't attach them however).
Thanks for your help!

Hi,
Any solutions to your problems?
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Finder has got out of sync with system clock?

For some reason, the system clock is reading the correct time, but the times indicated in Finder for "Date Modified" for every file or app are all wrong.
For example, at 11:45PM (as indicated by the clock in the menu bar) I installed OnyX for the first time, but when I look at the newly-installed app itself in the Applications folder in Finder, in the Date Modified column it says "Today 11:23PM". Also, various different apps and files have identical Date Modified times - several have 12:12PM, several have 8:08AM, and many have 4:16PM.
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Is the correct Time Zone set for your region of use?
Is the Time set to be coordinated with a network time server?
These are two basic things that could go wrong. There may
be others. I'm not sure at this moment what they may be.
You may have to see if your use of OnyX has somehow
changed the basic system settings; or maybe you did
not use the section most likely in OnyX to be helpful.
Or something else is acting up.
(Looking into my Date Time panel now has me wondering,
since I never look into there. It just works, usually!)
Good luck & happy computing!

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Stoping System Clock using Java code.
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