From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: iCal export - possible timezone bug Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:13:01 -0400 Message-ID: <8554.1241813581@alphaville.usa.hp.com> References: <15580.1241799336@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> <4a045fd5.0407560a.7279.ffffcc46@mx.google.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2WY5-0005qP-H6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:20:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2WY1-0005pp-U5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:20:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57252 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2WY1-0005pl-Kf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:19:57 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:45917) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2WY1-0006rN-9b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:19:57 -0400 Received: from g4t0015.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.18]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2WWY-0002VP-J1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 16:18:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Riley of "Fri, 08 May 2009 18:37:39 +0200." <4a045fd5.0407560a.7279.ffffcc46@mx.google.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Richard Riley Cc: org-mode Richard Riley wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: > > > Richard Riley wrote: > > > >> 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. > >> > > > > I may have misspoken about gnome-session: the article I pointed you to > > seems to say that it's gdm that reads /etc/gdm/Xsession. > > Which is still not a good place to put it since if you change your login > manager to, say, wdm bang goes your TZ. > I certainly was not suggesting putting the TZ definition in a system file: it belongs in a personal file (e.g. ~/.profile in my case). I was just correcting a (possible) misstatement in my earlier post. The question is: is there a personal file that can be used for this purpose, no matter *how* one starts his or her desktop environment? I suspect that the answer is "no", but there might be a best practice: one or two or perhaps a handful of possibilities for different methods of desktop initialization. Nick