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Re: Setting a different time zone than the system's


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Setting a different time zone than the system's
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:23:28 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

Rasmus Villemoes <burner+usenet@imf.au.dk> writes:

> I am currently on the east coast of the US (EST), but I always ssh
> to my department's server in Denmark and run emacs there. Hence, all
> my emails and news postings are time stamped as +0100. Is there a way
> to force Gnus to use -0500 instead?

Assuming you don't want to set the zone only for gnus, let alone only
for emacs, what you should do is to set the environment variable TZ in
your shell.

Put:

    export TZ=EST

in your ~/.bashrc file.


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