On 2010-01-06, Ravi Uday <raviu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter <p...@state-of-mind.de> > wrote: > > * Ravi Uday <raviu...@gmail.com>: > >> Kyle, > >> > >> This didn't work. > >> > >> The mail header shows : > >> > >> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:59:44 -0800 > >> > >> but my laptop's time is : Jan-6th-2010 11:38 AM. > > > > Did you source the ~/.bashrc after editing it?
> Yes I did it. > On the linux server where i run mutt : > > bash-3.00$ date > Wed Jan 6 08:44:40 IST 2010 > > Now from within mutt, if I check a recent mail's header, I see this : > .. > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:44:27 -0800 > .. > > I just have > export TZ=IST > in my .bashrc. > > Both the dates(from bash and from within mutt) are wrong > when I see from my windows m/c. > It rightly shows - Jan-6-2010 2:15 PM ! whichis the correct time now On a Red Hat system I just tried, TZ=IST doesn't work for me, either, but TZ=Asia/Calcutta does. The time zone names are in /usr/share/zoneinfo. HTH, Gary
