Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > [Sorry about the fat-fingered empty response earlier.] > > Richard Riley <rileyrg...@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 > > > > -- _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
