Re: [Orgmode] iCal export - possible timezone bug

[Richard Riley]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> [Sorry about the fat-fingered empty response earlier.]
>
> Richard Riley <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> >>
>> >>    export TZ
>> >>    TZ=Europe/Amsterdam
>> >>
>> >> e.g., in the appropriate login shell initialization file and get the
>> >> correct behavior with the system date as well as with org-icalendar.
>> 
>> I tried in my .xinitrc and my .bashrc and my /etc/bash.bashrc and it
>> didn't seem to pick up for the export correctly.
>> 
>
> For my Ubuntu 8.04/Gnome setup, putting it in ~/.profile works. But it
> depends on how your distro organizes the initialization of the desktop.
> There is a reasonable writeup (again about Ubuntu) here:
>
>      http://linuxgazette.net/161/okopnik.html
>
> It has to be part of the environment of whatever process starts your
> emacs (probably gnome-session), so it has to be set in an initialization
> file that gnome-session reads. The reason that ~/.profile works in Ubuntu
> is that gnome-session reads /etc/gdm/Xsession which includes the
> following:

It's a tad more complicated in my case since although I use gdm, I don't
use gnome-session as I use xmonad as my WM but with various gnome
utilities such as gnome-taskbar.

Think I'll stick with the iCalendar setting to be sure.

Thanks for the link though.

>
> ,----
> | # First read /etc/profile and .profile
> | test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile
> | test -f "$HOME/.profile" && . "$HOME/.profile"
> | # Second read /etc/xprofile and .xprofile for X specific setup
> | test -f /etc/xprofile && . /etc/xprofile
> | test -f "$HOME/.xprofile" && . "$HOME/.xprofile"
> `----
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
>      
>

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