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>> 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