Re: 21.2.1 sticky date

[Andreas Schwab]

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:

|> >> my laptop roams and i tend to go with it, right now we are in japan.
|> >> 
|> >> using tzsetup, i reset the timezone on my system as i move.  e.g.
|> >> 
|> >>     roam.psg.com:/usr/home/randy> date
|> >>     Wed Sep  4 14:15:47 JST 2002
|> >> 
|> >> but emacs seems to remember the timezone where emacs was first
|> >> run after the system was last booted.
|> > 
|> > This is the same with every program that still runs when you change the
|> > time zone.  The current time zone is usually only determined once during
|> > startup.  To reinitialize Emacs' view of the system's time zone use
|> > set-time-zone-rule.
|> 
|> it is sticky across restarting emacs

Make sure you do not have set TZ in the environment.

Andreas.

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