> I think you can do this in the DOS prompt -- where "EST5EDT" is your > timezone. > > > set TZ=EST5EDT > > There must be a more canonical way to do this in Windows, I'm not sure > what it is though.
If you do it at the CMD (nee DOS) prompt, I'm not sure it survives re-booting, or even re-starting cmd.exe. I think the right way to do it is to open the System applet in the Control Panel, click on the Advanced tab, click on the Environment Variables button, click on the New button, and enter 'TZ' in the Variable name slot, and 'EST5EDT' in the Variable Value slot. But if you're using CygWin, you can put the above 'set' cmd in your .bashrc file. (Not sure of the syntax, might have to be 'export TZ=EST5EDT' or some such.) Mike Maxwell CASL/ U MD
