From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: iCal export - possible timezone bug
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 17:49:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a045484.0305560a.4bed.ffff8a18@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14250.1241796445@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Fri, 08 May 2009 11:27:25 -0400")
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> [Sorry about the fat-fingered empty response earlier.]
>
> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-08 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-25 20:51 iCal export - possible timezone bug Richard Riley
2009-05-06 10:57 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-06 13:42 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-06 13:50 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-07 16:59 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-07 17:45 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 7:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-08 15:02 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-08 15:09 ` Karsten Heymann
2009-05-08 15:51 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-08 15:11 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 15:27 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 15:49 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2009-05-07 4:44 ` Mario E. Munich
2009-05-07 15:08 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-07 15:23 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-07 15:49 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <71454fac0905070813laabf50bg4cb5285b3c48085c@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <4a0302c6.0637560a.215f.1158@mx.google.com>
2009-05-07 17:06 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-17 12:31 ` Richard Riley
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2009-05-08 16:15 Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 16:37 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-08 20:13 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 21:15 ` Nick Dokos
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