On Monday 09 June 2003 06:06 am, Lex Spoon wrote:
> Derek Brans <brans at nerdonawire.com> wrote:
> > I set my TZ environment variable to EST8EDT and that did the
> > trick.  Time class>>now evaluates to the correct time.
>
> It would be nice to know why Squeak needs this but "date" does not.
>  The code simply uses gettimeofday(), and so I would think you'd
> get the same time from both places......  What does "date" do, if
> not gettimeofday() ?!?!
>

$ TZ= date
Mon Jun  9 21:59:17 UTC 2003
$ date
Mon Jun  9 14:59:20 PDT 2003

> Incidentally, my time comes out correctly in Squeak on Debian, for
> whatever reason.

Do you have your hardware clock set to local time?

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