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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