Date Modified are ALL today in finder!!!

larry98765

larry98765

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Hi all,

Suddenly, all my files (1,000s of them!) are displaying as Date Modified "Today" at some random time or another. When I check the get info for the file, the date modified seems to be correct, and they are also correct when I do "ls" in the terminal. So it seems to be just that the finder is wigging out. Tried restarting.

Anyone have this problem? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. This sort of thing is a BAAAD omen!

larry

EDIT: Fixed! Right after I posted this, I remembered there was a power outage today. (Duh!) So I went to the date and time control panel -- sure enough, I suddenly found myself in 1969! (Before I was born, but an eventful year to say the least.) Simply resetting the clock to the time network did the trick. Hope my experience helps anyone having a similar problem.
 
Sounds like you need to check your battery. A power outage shouldn't reset your date unless your battery is dead.


Fred
 
I've since shut down (overnight) and then restarted with no problem -- the time is still correct. So I assume that means the battery is ok. I wonder if a power surge could have been what reset my clock? Or maybe the computer really WAS in 1969. Could be my flux capacitor. ;-)
 
The clock on my iBook reset back to 1970 once after the battery had died, but I wouldn't expect this to be a very common occurrence. It sure confused ProjectBuilder, which uses modification dates to figure out which files have changed.
 
The iBook doesn't have a backup clock battery or capacitor, so the clock is reset whenever the battery is completely discharged or removed from the computer.

larry -When the computer is shut down, the clock takes power from the PSU. So if you unplug the power cord, you'll see it resets to 1969. Battery replacing time ;)
Where did you get the plutionium needed to drive your flux capacitor, btw? I suspect you're running a secret nuclear reactor. You know, that's against the site rules.
 
Under Unix (and Mac OS X) the clock is expressed as the number of seconds since midnight, Jan 1, 1970. Thus if the clock resets to "0" the date will be 1970. However, since the time base is Greenwich Mean Time most systems will interpret this as Dec 31, 1969 in the Western Hemisphere. The reason my clock showed the year as 1970 is because I didn't notice it until several hours had passed.
 
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