Subject: PC-PINE Time Zone

From: Edward H Fenster <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 17:01:05 -0800

Hello.

  My copy of PC-PINE is properly putting Eastern Standard Time on my 
outgoing messages; however, it is marking them Pacific Standard Time.  
For instace, if I mail a message 3 p.m. EST (-0500), it is marked 3 p.m. 
PST (-0800).

  This happens in both Windows 3.11, as well as Windows/NT, which is 
properly set for EST (-0500).  Mail I compose on my computer using 
different software (NUPOP) is properly stamped.

  Does anybody know how to fix the time zone marking on my outbound mail, 
or for that matter where PC-PINE gets the current time zone from?

Thanks Much!
      - Edward

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From: [email-masked] (David Romani)
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 09:04:31 -0500

Edward, 

>From the Pine Technical notes, p. 18 (a very useful resource)

Set an environment variable TZ in your autoexec.bat

TZ=ZZZ[+H]H[:MM:SS:TTT]

where ZZZ is your standard time zone, e.g., EST
      + (or -) H[:MM:SS] its offset from GMT
      TTT is your summer or daylight savings time zone, e.g., EDT

The default values for a DOS/Windows system are PST-8PDT (US Pacific Time
and the location of Microsoft's headquarters.

The correct setting for someone in the US eastern time zone would be 

SET TZ=EST-5EDT

In article <[email-masked]>,

-- 
David Romani
Library Systems Office
Academic Affairs Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[email-masked]