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From: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to set the default timezone for messages being sent?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:22:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygmzi5odiwd.fsf@gkayaalp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zi5prw87.fsf@zoho.com> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Mon, 08 Jan 2018 02:10:48 +0100")

On 2018-01-08 02:10 +01, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> Kayaalp wrote:
>
>> You can change the TZ variable in Emacs like:
>>
>>   (setenv "TZ" "Europe/London")
>>
>> it works for me. I guess you can make
>> a function like this (example in pseudo-code)
>
> Better to do this in the shell's environment
> file, e.g. ~/.zshenv for zsh:

Certainly, but AFAIU the OP wants to modify the timezone temporarily to
have a ‘Date:’ header in a certain timezone, different from his default
one, when sending some particular messages.

>     export TZ='Europe/Stockholm'
>
> You can pass this to a tool without setting it
> system-wide like this, for example if your wife
> has run off with you lawer and now lives in LA:
>
> la-time () {
>     TZ="America/Los_Angeles" date
> }

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-08  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-05 22:52 Bahodir Mansurov
2018-01-06 16:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-01-07 23:55   ` Bob Newell
2018-01-08  0:42 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2018-01-08  1:10   ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-08  5:22     ` Göktuğ Kayaalp [this message]

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