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Re: rt 7.3N: emacs's display-time fails to use TZ

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Sat Sep 21 16:49:26 1991

Date: Sat, 21 Sep 91 16:49:56 -0400
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8246]

Upon further reflection, I have a theory as to why the time doesn't work
properly.  Perhaps when emacs is dumping itself at configuration time,
the time zone information has already been processed.  If this is the
problem, then explicitly using tzset() within emacs may be a reasonable
workaround.

John

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