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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
> 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