Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5234
need backward compatibility time zone config
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:51 EDT
When a program is running using the backward compatibility libraries from "compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1", it will not have proper time zone configuration. This is most apparent when sending e-mail from Netscape Communicator using the "netscape-communicator-4.61-9" package. The "Date:" header in outgoing mail incorrectly gives UTC time zone "+000" rather than whatever the local machine is actually configured to use. (Note, however, that this is really not a Netscape bug. It is a time configuration bug that affects any date-sensitive application using the backward compatibility libraries. Netscape just happens to be the most prominent such application.) Perhaps we need a "compat-timeconfig" package to go along with "compat-glibc" ?
Set TZ=:/etc/localtime. This is fixed in the latest netscape packages (4.61-12.)
*** Bug 5395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Netscape does not set the right time zone for outgoing emails unless the TZ environment variable is set, i.e.: export TZ=:/etc/localtime This could also be put in /etc/bashrc (and cshrc or whatever), so that other apps will have access to TZ as well.