Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

  Lars> Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:
  >> Doing (current-time-string) before starting rgnus-0.81 gives "Thu Jan
  >> 16 18:32:19 1997".  It is the correct local time.
  >> 
  >> After rgnus-0.81 started (current-time-string) gives "Fri Jan 17
  >> 02:35:31 1997" which is 8 hours ahead of local time.

  Lars> Yes...  I remember seeing RMS saying something like this; there was
  Lars> a bug in some timezone thingie that would set the timezone if one
  Lars> called one of the time functions with a specified timezone.  It has
  Lars> been fixed in Emacs now, but I'm not sure whether the same patch has
  Lars> been applied to XEmacs...

If assume that this is the problem, is there a way to specific timezone in
(X)Emacs?  8 hours is way off...  I want to change timezone to at least
somewhere near California...

Also worth notice is that the problem didn't happen in rgnus-0.66.  Did any
timezone related stuff in GNUS (message.el, parse-time.el, etc...) get
changed from then to now?

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