#MAC SHUTDOWN VIA TERMINAL INSTALL#

If the date was wrong, it was likely that which caused the error, and after you quit the terminal it should be able to install OS X just fine. You can then check if it was set correctly by running the first command again. Which means, you can just enter it exactly like this: date -uД®nter the command and hit return. To avoid trouble with timezones, we will use UTC time instead (). Below you see what the command should be for your current time and dateВ вЂ“. To do that, enter something like sudo shutdown -r +5. This command will be entered as follows: date -u Д®very bracket should be replaced with a two-digit number based on UTC time. The remote Mac simply restarts without issuing any warnings about saving open files.) You can delay the restart for awhile if you like. For some reason, it might have been reset to 2001, in which case we need to set it to the right date. The result of this command will be the date that the system currently has been set to. Once in the terminal enter the following command and hit return/enter: date You can check this by going to utilities and opening the terminal. You can also access the dialog box quickly by pressing Control + Power buttons (Eject button on Macs. This dialog will ask if you want to restart, shutdown or put the Mac to sleep. Press and hold power button for 1.5 seconds to get the turn off dialog. Now, if you havenвЂ™t used your Mac for a while, the error might be caused by an incorrectВ system dateВ setting. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds without lifting to force your Mac to turn off. Simply type the following commands, putting the locations of the two. When youвЂ™re booting your Mac from the recovery partition and are planning toВ reinstall OS X, you might be met by the following message:ДЄn error occurred while preparing the installation. ThereвЂ™s a better way to compare two files of the same type, and itвЂ™s built into every MacitвЂ™s the opendiff command.

March 2013 Changing system date from Terminal вЂ“ OS X recovery

Mac shutdown via terminal