21.2.1 sticky date

21.2.1 sticky date

[Randy Bush]

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.

freebsd-stable
emacs 21.2.1
vm

randy

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.

Andreas.

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Re: 21.2.1 sticky date

[Randy Bush]

>> 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

randy

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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SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg
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Re: 21.2.1 sticky date

[Randy Bush]

>>>> 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.

did that

% env | grep TZ
%

note that, just to recheck my previous assertion, i have restart
emaces and it still thinks we are in seattle (-0700) as opposed to
kokura (+0900).

randy