I'm not able to manually set the time zone for my MacBook Pro (16" M1) running macOS Ventura 13.1.
I've tried turning off Location services and rebooting, but that hasn't helped. The Time zone setting remains disabled, when according to Apple's support forums, it should now show a "Set" button.
Is this a bug? Any ideas on how to work around this? I would need it to test some development work for different time zones.
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon
As a follow up, I was able to successfully set the time zone via the command line. However, despite successfully changing the time zone, I received this error:
$: sudo systemsetup -settimezone Asia/Jakarta
2023-01-11 10:34:36.354 systemsetup[5499:27414] ### Error:-99 File:/AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/2a53ee2d-6754-11ed-a659-7ef33c48bc85/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/Admin/InternetServices.m Line:379
As a follow up, I was able to successfully set the time zone via the command line. However, despite successfully changing the time zone, I received this error:
$: sudo systemsetup -settimezone Asia/Jakarta
2023-01-11 10:34:36.354 systemsetup[5499:27414] ### Error:-99 File:/AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/2a53ee2d-6754-11ed-a659-7ef33c48bc85/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/Admin/InternetServices.m Line:379
I had the same problem and solved it:
1) Created a root user with a password like this page: How to enable the root user or change the root password on Mac - Apple Support.
2) Then logged in as root and changed the timezone like this page: https://macosx-faq.com/how-to-change-date-time-terminal/
3) Then logged in my own account and checked the timezone which was the right way set.
4) Then disabled the root user as the first page explained.
Good luck!
Then have a few suggestions ;
1 - Get Support Choose a product and we’ll find you the best solution.Start now and open an Apple Support Ticket as they are Apple Employees to deal will these types of issues .
2 - Product Feedback - Apple and make it known to Apple regarding this ongoing issue
Refer to image below and turn off " Set time and date automatically " and see of that works
Unfortunately that didn't help either.
Thanks! I'll try those 😊
Welcome and time permitting, keep us posted on the progress 👍
Cannot manually set the time zone
