Or, click on the correct date in the calendar graphic, to change the month use the left and right arrows.Ħ. Either use the up or down arrows to change the value, or type in the information. To manually set the date, click on the month, day, or year in the field above the calendar to select it.

To set things manually, or if you don’t have a network connection, deselect the “Set Date & Time automatically” checkbox.ĥ. If you always want your Mac to set the date and time automatically, select the “Set Date & Time automatically” checkbox, choose your location from the pop-up menu to the right, and skip to step 7. Open System Preferences and click Date & Time to display the preferences.ģ. Here’s how you can set these preferences.ġ. You can also decide how you want the time and date to display on your Mac. Mac has the ability to automatically set the correct date and time, or you can choose to set these manually. As we do not have any Mac PC to work on, I have tried to simplify this process a bit. So, from the Quality point of View we should know how to do it in one go. As some of clients are new to Mac and they need some basic settings on it.