Re: date discrepancies

[Stefan Monnier]

> to send the date command to the shell, I get a different time and time zone 
> that I get from running the command on a standard bash shell. I have set my 

Your timezone is set in one of the shell's startup file, but your Emacs is
started by something which hasn't read those files.
It's a classic problem when starting Emacs from a menu in your
window-manager.

Complain to your distribution about it.  Only loud recurring complaints will
have a chance of fixing those problem (which have been known for decades,
literally).


        Stefan