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Re: date discrepancies
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Sebastian Luque |
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Re: date discrepancies |
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Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:42:03 -0400 |
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Thanks Pascal, I'm a bit confused about which environment Emacs is getting to
run shell commands. All date and time variables are correct in shell. I'm
using a Debian box and checking the binaries for emacs, there are three of
them: emacs, emacs21, and emacs21-x. I've always been using emacs21, which
gives the wrong time. But if I run emacs, then it gives the correct time
variables. Why is there a difference?
On Thu, 2 September 2004 03:04 -0500, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> To see the time zone in emacs, type in *scratch*: (getenv "TZ") C-u C-x
> C-e To see it in shell, type: echo $TZ
Under emacs21, the result was "nil", and in shell, I get "America/Winnipeg",
which is correct.
> Try it in a shell on xterm and in a shell on emacs: M-x shell RET echo $TZ
> RET
This emacs command gives the correct result, using emacs21. However, in the
same session, M-! echo $TZ, gives no output. I'm very confused; M-x shell and
M-! seem to be getting different environments.
> You can correct it either by modifying the environment used by the
> program that launches emacs, or from emacs using:
>
> (setenv "TZ" "CEST") C-x C-e
>
> or inserting: (setenv "TZ" "CEST")
> in your ~/.emacs
Because my time has been already correctly set, changing it like this messes
it up, and now the time is incorrect both in shell and in emacs M-! date,
although the time zone shows ok. Very strange.
There is a difference between emacs and emacs21 that I'm not understanding.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Sebastian