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See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-06/msg00476.html ,---- M-x display-time-world | Seattle Wednesday 27 June 01:24 PDT | New York Wednesday 27 June 04:24 EDT <=== Off by 1 hr | London Wednesday 27 June 09:24 BST | Paris Wednesday 27 June 10:24 CDT | Bangalore Wednesday 27 June 14:54 IST <=== Local Timezone | Tokyo Wednesday 27 June 18:24 JST `---- ,---- http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179 | | Current Time|Wednesday, 27 June 2012, 05:27:42 EDT <=== Time now | | | Standard time zone: | UTC/GMT -5 hours | | | Daylight saving time: | +1 hour | | | Current time zone offset: | UTC/GMT -4 hours | | | Time zone abbreviation: | EDT - Eastern Daylight Time | `---- As you can see, the time reported by Emacs is off by 1 hr. Is there a way to fix it? Also I could take some help with interpreting the value of this variable. Should display-time-world be documented in Emacs reference manual? ,----[ C-h v display-time-world-list RET ] | display-time-world-list is a variable defined in `time.el'. | Its value is (("PST8PDT" "Seattle") | ("EST5EDT" "New York") | ("GMT0BST" "London") | ("CET-1CDT" "Paris") | ("IST-5:30" "Bangalore") <=== Why this ''minus''. Isn't IST = GMT+5:30? | ("JST-9" "Tokyo")) | | | Documentation: | Alist of time zones and places for `display-time-world' to display. | Each element has the form (TIMEZONE LABEL). | TIMEZONE should be in a format supported by your system. See the | documentation of `zoneinfo-style-world-list' and | `legacy-style-world-list' for two widely used formats. LABEL is | a string to display as the label of that TIMEZONE's time. | | You can customize this variable. | | This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in | version 23.1 of Emacs. | | [back] `---- ps: I am really interested in local Ottawa time (which is apparently same as NY's throughout the year)