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berzerker (michaelw@unixg.ubc.ca)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:15:18 +0000
> > Netscape Mail, rcs, and a couple other apps are convinced that i am on
> > GMT.. (note the date/time of this message, it's 7:45 right now)
> > However, KDE and the date command knows i'm PST.
>
> At the time you start up Netscape Mail, what is the value of the
> environment variable TZ? If it's something unrecognizable, the default
> appears to be GMT.
>
> The data command (or any other) doesn't know that you "are" in PST; it
> just knows that you like to see times expressed that way. If you do
> this:
> $ TZ=Asia/Hong_Kong date
> Fri Jan 22 12:20:23 CST 1999
> it will show you the current time in the Hong Kong time zone just
> as happily.
>
> (Note: If TZ isn't set in your environment, then the routines concerned
> use a system-wide default. If TZ is set, but to the null string, then
> GMT is used.)
Hi Ted, thanks for your response. I set the TZ variable to
Canada/Pacific and then reloaded netscape, but as you can see from this
message, it's still in GMT.. I did a little grepping through man pages,
but i couldn't find anything helpful.. Where is the "system-wide
default" you're talking about? Where else could i look regarding
timezone stuff.
Does anyone else use netscape mail? (4.5/linux) Do your messages
reflect your timezone correctly?
myk
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