Travel Technology - Help! Daylight Savings Is Killing My Mac

All of sudden the battery on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leapard ran down quickly and the fans came on. A quick inspection of Activity Monitor showed SystemUIServer was running amok.

Google doesn't have much, except to say there was a known bug that triggered this process to run away after a DST switch when the time/date is displayed in the menu bar. Removing the time display from the menu bar returns the process to normal CPU. If I put the clock back, the process takes off again.

Has anyone else seen or experienced this or know the remedy?

We don't have change the clocks tonight. We are remaining same time to become year-round long. So you should have to reset the computer and it should get better try to fixed your clocks. You have to fixed your computer and to do setting 1 hours back the time. If your computer doesn't work at all. You have to try to reset the mac computer.

We don't have change the clocks tonight. We are remaining same time to become year-round long. So you should have to reset the computer and it should get better try to fixed your clocks. You have to fixed your computer and to do setting 1 hours back the time. If your computer doesn't work at all. You have to try to reset the mac computer.

We changed our clocks over here tonight. Rebooting didn't help - still the same problem.

My PowerBook G4 at home is running Leopard (not Snow Leopard). It's awake and running right now with the clock in the menu bar, but I'm not there, so I can't comment on the issue (except to say I've never had it before). I'll have to check it when I get home and see if it's exhibiting the problems yours is.

If so, I have no idea what's going on.

Actually, pause that--I have the iStat app on my iPhone. I'm connecting to my computer now...connecting...ooh! Hmm--load average of 1.95 over the last 15 minutes. Not a good sign! Unfortunately, iStat doesn't show "top" from a remote computer, so I can't confirm it's SystemUIServer. Will check later.

Weird bug!

my MBP with snow leopard seems OK

Very odd! I just put the clock back and the process is normal now. Maybe it was doing something in background? Who knows.

Now if I could only get Firefox to stop chewing up resources, I'd be good to go.

No problem on any of my 3 MBP's, all running Snow Leopard.

Hi, I'm a PC. I handled DST just fine. :p

Hi, I'm a PC. I handled DST just fine. :p

LMAO!

Hi, I'm a PC. I handled DST just fine. :p That is very funny and also highly original.

Incidentally, Snow Leopard on my MBP did not require any adjustment. It just changed over by itself. Any Mac users with a lot of applications running under Snow Leopard should strongly consider running Snow Checker (http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/snowchecker), which is a free compatibility checker. It found some HP software that was causing problems for me.

Hi, I am an amd powered windows machine, me and my direct siblings which number over 200 handled DST just fine. My Linux running cousins numbering around 250 also handled DST just fine :)

(numbers are machines in direct control)

I was actually a bit surprised, some of them haven't been rebooted in over a year and patches were done the rebootless method.

All of sudden the battery on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leapard ran down quickly and the fans came on. A quick inspection of Activity Monitor showed SystemUIServer was running amok.

Google doesn't have much, except to say there was a known bug that triggered this process to run away after a DST switch when the time/date is displayed in the menu bar. Removing the time display from the menu bar returns the process to normal CPU. If I put the clock back, the process takes off again.

Has anyone else seen or experienced this or know the remedy?
We are not switching to Daylight Savings Time, but from it to Standard Time. Maybe your Mac was just as confused. :p

Got home and checked: my Mac handled the switch perfectly. Not sure what the high load average was--maybe just Mail checking my bazillion accounts or something on my old, slow processor.

Load average is 0.6 now.

My first gen MacBook running Snow Leopard as well as my wife's had no issues.

Hi, I'm a PC. I handled DST just fine. :p

You already change the clocks by last night. You are now it is 9:20pm in EST time.