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Can't change time on Mac Book Pro

Apr 16, 2015 4:09AM PDT

MacBook Pro, OS 10.7.5. authenticates to an Exchange system.
I have a user who has admin rights on the computer, that couldn't get on the wireless system. I found that her time was off by about 12 days. We tried changing the time in System Preferences, couldn't change the time there. Logged her out and I logged in as an admin user and was able to change the time in System Preferences. I saved the settings and restarted the computer. Logged in again as her and the time still read the same date (12 days off) in the menu bar at the top of her screen. Still couldn't access the wireless because of the time difference, system time out. Went the system preferences and again tried to change it under her log in, no luck.
Can't figure this one out. Can't update her system OS with out wiping the the drive. Don't really want to do that.
Any ideas for a solution?

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True.
Apr 16, 2015 4:15AM PDT
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Re: true
Apr 16, 2015 4:26AM PDT

The computer was set to use a Apple's time server. I unchecked that option in the time preferences and set the time manually.

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Opps
Apr 16, 2015 4:37AM PDT

Hit the return key before finishing previous post.
Setting the time manually also did not work for the other user, only when I was logged in.

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So it's still set to use a time server....
Apr 16, 2015 5:18AM PDT

As long as that's true, you can't set the time.

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Date & Time
May 4, 2015 6:13PM PDT

Hi,

Can't you go to Preferences/Date & Time and hit the Date & Time tab and adjust the time? While you're at it, you might Set Date & Time Automatically so it will stay accurate.

Hope this helps

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had you read the thread,
May 4, 2015 9:30PM PDT

you would have noticed that the OP already has that set!

P

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Fixed the problem
May 4, 2015 10:58PM PDT

I un-bound/ removed the MBP from the Exchange domain, changed the time manually and then set the time to use Apple's time server and to update automatically. Checked the time a few minutes later and it was keeping correct time, so I re-bound it to the domain. It has been keeping time correctly since.

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(NT) Thanks for the update
May 5, 2015 8:16AM PDT