(You can skip the preamble and just read the last sentence/question if you're short on time.) I had thought that the standard way to set up a linux system was to set the system time to the UTC (or Greenwich mean time or whatever) and set the appropriate TZ variable. I just realized that my system is not set like that. Or at least it does not appear to be. I was setting up a GPG key on my girlfriend's computer (in the same house) and emailed a bit back and forth. She noted that my messages were coming through to her as being sent 4 hrs earlier than the current time. Then I couldn't import her GPG key because GPG said it was created about 4 hrs in the future (from my system's perspective). Now, I realized that my system is in AST, which is -0400 from UTC or Greenwich (which is it anyway?) so that explained that. I set my time clock to be UTC, then selected the Show Timezone->America/Halifax setting from the clock applet in my KDE launchbar but... As you'll see from this email, my emails are now being reported as having been sent at 5something am (currently). Indeed, viewing the headers of my emails to myself shows: Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 05:31:25 +0000 This should be: Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 05:31:25 -0400 or would that be: Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:31:25 -0400 ? Anyway, KMail has no way to set the TZ variable that I can find, and I'm sure it's supposed to be system-wide anyway. Any suggestions about where/what I'm missing? Where can I set the TZ variable (or whatever it's called)? -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx public key | http://www.haligonian.com/pgp/
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