From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 14:15:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDC337BD1A for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:15:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5505 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:15:23 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 303 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:18:37 +1100 Message-ID: <38C42E06.AA4906A5@S1.com> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 22:15:34 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: date/time display in Net.Messenger References: <38BC5716.FB116588@S1.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I'm still struggling with this one. > > I've checked the archives (query was "netscape and messenger and time" > and variants with "date" and "linux" added) and no real joy. I'm sure > it's something stupid I've (not) done. > > FreeBSD V3.3-Release, Linux compatability (linux_base-5.2) and > Netscape > Communicator 4.61 - Linux variant. Dual boot with Win95 (rarely used, > but there anyway) and as such the RTC is set to local time (Australian > Eastern) with adjkerntz running. > > My problem: Netscape Messenger keeps telling the time of the mail > messages as UTC, rather than local. I _can_ cope with this, but it's a > little disconcerting. > > What do I need to tell Netscape to not use the (adjusted) kernel-time, > but rather the local time? (as 'date' does, quite nicely) Do I need to > declare an environment variable at Netscape startup to tell it it is > at > 10 (well 11 as we are still on DST) hours ahead of UTC ? > I figured that it wasn't 'Netscape' as such, but rather the Linux environment that I needed to "tell" what the TZ was. So after some searching through some RH Linux docs, I tried a soft link from /usr/compat/linux/etc/localtime to /usr/compat/linux/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney (being my time zone) and restarted the linux environment (# kldunload linux; linux) then restarted NetComm. {sigh} No joy. I'm sure _someone_ here has come across this (and solved it)??? Would I be better to post to the 'emulation' list? Regards, Harry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message